While officers spoke to Oliver, Lesner said he heard a dog at the side garage door “barking, growling and smashing in to it.” The door burst open and a white 100 pound pitbull came running out at full speed. Lesner wrote that the dog appeared “extremely aggressive, agitated and wanting to do harm to the officers.” As the dog ran past Lesner — focused on the officers nearest to Oliver — Lesner shot it three times in the back and lower back area with an M4 rifle. When the dog attempted to get back to its feet, “snarling and attempting to bite,” Lesner wrote that he fired four more rounds in to the animal. The report doesn’t say if the dog was killed.At first I thought I'd have another story about overly trigger-happy cops doing their thing, but after reading the description of that scene, I'm with them 100%.
What do you think?
Happens with dangerous dogs. Shot a couple of them myself, sheriff picked the bodies up and filed charges against the owner of those dogs.
ReplyDeleteSeven rounds for one dog? Wow! what if there were two dogs and the police were limited to 10 rounds?
ReplyDeleteNow Bill, you know that Police are highly trained to properly dispatch that many rounds in a short period of time. They would be just fine.
DeleteBut of course, if a citizen was faced with such a situation, they should simply call 911 and wait for help to arrive.
Silly.
"Hello, 911?, I was attacked by two dogs. I just shot and killed one dog, but the other one is currently eating my legs and arms. I complied with the law and only had 10 rounds of ammunition, could you be a sweetie and kindly send an ambulance, and more ammo, please."
DeleteBill, it is really surprising what it takes to kill one of those 100 lb beasts. I was truly surprised myself. And yes, limiting to ten or less rounds would be a dangerous thing to do if your trying to defend yourself from man or beast. A determined large man, or a drug influenced one can take more than ten to take down as well.
ReplyDeleteAnd evil or vicious creatures, on two legs or four, sometimes run in packs.
DeleteThats what I meant by a "couple" in my post. There were actually three. Got two and one ran off but did get found later by the sheriff and was put down by him. I had 6 rounds of 00buck and used them all at ten feet and less. Neither were instantly killed but disabled. One round of 7.62X39 in each skull stopped them breathing tho.
DeleteIt turned out that the previous owner couldn't handle them anymore, drove them out to the country and dumped them,,,,,,,, with their tags still on their collars. Owner faced large fines from multiple charges, 15 in all if I remember right, and jail time.
I do have a question about the title tho,
ReplyDeleteLegitimate Police
As opposed to il-Legitimate Police?
Is there such a thing??
Mikeb, you've declared your support for the police action in this case. What if these had been private citizens with a gun?
ReplyDeleteThat wouldn't have changed anything.
DeleteOn second thought, though, I wonder how credible the story is really. A 100-pound dog sounds terrifying, but if you think about it, a 100-pound person is a lightweight. It's only that most dogs are smaller.
ReplyDeleteIs it realistic that after three shots from a powerful rifle the dog was still a threat?
Maybe I should have taken a totally different tack on this post and compared it to the many so-called legitimate DGUs that are really unnecessary shootings.
1. The M-4 fires a 5.56mm round, not a particularly powerful cartridge.
Delete2. A pitbull is a hundred pounds of muscle. Human beings, by contrast, are not physically dangerous animals. That's why we use tools.
3. Once again, when offered the chance to look silly, you take it.
Take another look at the mouth on that 100 pound dog. Those animals have killed many people that weigh twice as much or more than that dog. That mouth can completely sever your hand in one bite. Thats not a guess, its happend many times.
DeleteI would like to see any human that can bite off a hand in one bite, or several for that matter.
Want to stick your hand in the mouth of one of those hundred pound pissed off harmless dogs and prove us wrong Mike?