“We don’t have any way of taking care of a dog,“ an officer told the dog’s owner, Bryan Pennington.
You couldn't just take it to a local dog pound? And isn't there such a thing as microchipping, which allows a dog to be scanned and their owners identified?
He didn't think of this excuse until afterward when he was called into question. When asked to pick up the dog his only thought was "Great! Something I can get away with killing!"
That is such a bullshit statement. My sister's dog ran off at state park. We searched for hours and asked around before finally heading to the rangers station to see if they had heard anything. Turns out, the rangers had found her and they and the maintenence guys spent all day hanging out with her and driving her around in the various vehicles. The ranger we spoke to said they were going to take her to the shelter if we hadn't come before the park shit down. They had "nothing to take care of a dog" but managed to handle it without shooting anything.
When I first bought my school bus I needed to have a policeman come out and do a VIN verification so I could get it registered, so I called the local (Philadelphia) police department. When I asked for an officer to do this, the dispatcher said "nah". I said "nah?" and he said "yeah, nah" and hung up on me.
When someone broke the window on my car I needed a police report for the insurance. They wouldn't cover it otherwise. When the cop showed up he yelled at me for having a broken window and told me he wasn't gonna do the report unless I gave him permission to search the car for drugs. I gave him permission, but filmed the search. He found nothing and wrote the report.
it's no real comfort but sometimes it helps me to understand that the internal life of someone who would kill a dog for convenience is almost certainly already a hell.
The word "Missouri" often has been construed to mean "muddy water" but the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology has stated it means "town of the large canoes," and authorities have said the Indian syllables from which the word comes mean "wooden canoe people" or "he of the big canoe."
Mississippi, meaning "great river" or "gathering-in of all the waters," sometimes referred to as the "father of waters,".
I heard Florida was Spanish for "we're sorry, no really, sorry. So sorry. We messed up pretty bad. It's your problem now, we're just so done with this shit."
What a lot of people don't know is that a la bama in spanish means "to the borders as quickly as possible even fucking Arkansas is an improvement on this shithole"
Finally, a post about police violence that has no bootlickers in the comments. I guess going out of their way to kill a dog is the one thing so unambiguously shitty that nobody bothers trying to defend the cop
Fox News and Fox Broadcasting have the same corporate granddaddy and the same first name, but they're not the same thing.
Fox News is the laughably Republican propaganda channel on cable TV.
Fox Broadcasting is a separate, over-the-air TV network with ordinary brain-numbing television shows. The network doesn't even have a news department, but their affiliate stations might have local news. When they do, it's low-calorie journalistic content similar to any other station, and not usually as thoroughly slanted as Fox News.