Cop shot dog, owner blamed police

[Msmith]

There are wrong in so many levels in this story.

[chiefzilla1501]

The postal service uses pepper spray. And they don't even carry firearms. Why in the world wouldn't a cop do the same? They even have a taser, for crying out loud.

[Radar Chief]

Pit bull. It was going to happen eventually anyway. The cop just did everyone a favor and got it out of the way early.

[wutamess]

Post the fuggin article asshole:

A Metairie man said he he is in the process of filing a complaint with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office after a deputy shot and killed his dog two weeks ago in his own backyard.


Ted Jackson - Jordan Reimer, 22, grieves near the grave of his dog, Sandy, a 2-year-old pitt bull shot and killed March 25 by a Jefferson Parish deputy sheriff.But Sheriff Office officials said deputies were there to investigate reports of gunfire, and had the owner not been engaged in illegal activities, the dog would still be alive. Jordan Reimer, 22, said his 2-year-old pitt bull, Sandy, was shot by a deputy who walked into his fenced-in yard at 2521 Elise Ave. Reimer and a friend have admitted to firing a potato gun - a home-made plastic-pipe cannon that can launch projectiles - but he said he believes the deputy shouldn't have just barged into his backyard.

"All this would have been avoided if they'd have just knocked on my front door. I'd have taken the ticket and said I'm sorry and they wouldn't have shot my dog," said Reimer Monday afternoon as he knelt by the small grave he dug for Sandy in his backyard.

The incident occurred about 6:30 p.m. on March 25, according to a Sheriff's Office incident report. After receiving a 911 call from a neighbor reporting gunfire coming from the backyard, the deputy arrived and noticed a plastic "cannon-type device" in the yard through the wooden fence, the report said.

The deputy entered the yard and Sandy approached growling and barking, the report said. The deputy pulled his pistol and fired, missing the dog as it lunged. The dog lunged a second time and the deputy fired again, hitting Sandy between the shoulders.

Reimer said he raced outside after hearing the first shot. He saw the deputy and Sandy standing about three feet apart.


Jordan Reimer - Sandy"I said, 'No, don't shoot. Don't shoot. Don't shoot. She won't hurt you,'" Reimer recalled. He said the deputy looked at him, looked back at the dog and opened fire.

Reimer and his friend, Joshua DiMaggio, 20, also of Metairie, were cited for illegal discharge of a slingshot or firearm. The pair learned how to make the potato gun by watching a video on the Internet site YouTube.com. Reimer said he didn't think it was illegal because he saw children that appeared to be firing them in their own backyards.

Still, Reimer said he believes the deputy could have used non-lethal force such as pepper spray, a Taser or a baton. Reimer said he contacted the Sheriff's office Internal Affairs Division and was instructed Monday to e-mail his side of the encounter to officials.

Reimer was joined Monday by Jeff Dorson, executive director of The Humane Society of Louisiana. Dorson said the shooting should serve as an opportunity for law enforcement to address proper training on animal confrontations. Dogs are part of most households and will protect their families and properties.

"You have to change your methodology so you don't keep shooting somebody's pet," Dorson said.
Sheriff Newell Normand said animal encounters are quite common and covered by training. Most are resolved without incident. But while dogs may be friendly with family, they can be unpredictable and aggressive with strangers.

"We will not wait until the dogs are chomping on one of the limbs of our officers to shoot," Normand said.
The sheriff said Reimer should take responsibility for his own actions - creating an illegal incendiary device that frightened neighbors and drew the attention of law enforcement.

"We wouldn't have been there in the first place had those two knuckleheads not been on YouTube trying to fabricate a cannon as opposed to reading a book," Normand said.

[Molitoth]

More cops on powertrips.

[wutamess]

I bet Sandy won't lunge towards nobody else.

Furthermore, can you stage a situation any more that it already is with the burial shot of him with his head down.
This story is similar to someone playing the race card? Stop doing dumb shit and dumb shit won't tend to happen to you.

Really?

[Brock]

Oh, it's a pit bull. Suddenly, I don't care.

[Bane]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Pit bull. It was going to happen eventually anyway. The cop just did everyone a favor and got it out of the way early.

I'm getting ready to do the same thing.I live right by a park,and theres always kids playing there and people walking there.I was down there sat morn walking and a huge pit bull ran through the park and jumped on me.I was luck enough to get a kick in right on his nose and get him off of me.I really didn't want to kick him but I had no choice IMO.So I called the local sheriffs dept and they sent animal control.Well he gets there and the dog attacks him and he has to pepper spray him to get him contained.Well the owner turned out to be one of the new renters in the apt complex right by the park,and he says he had him tied up but he must have gotten off.DUH!!!So I'm not sure what the process is now but the owner threw a fit saying I made up the story and that he wasn't ever gonna "pen up" his dog,and that he wouldn't hurt anyone.You know it scared the shit out of me cause it happened so fast but I was more worried for the women and kids in the park.My boys play there all the time and it's really bothering me cause as big as he was,it could easily be one of those terrible stories you read about all the time if he were to get ahold of a kid.I haven't seen the dog back at the apt but I'm afraid of what the dog will do if he gets him back.I've already told the old lady that if I see him loose again,I'm going to do everyone a favor and end the dogs life.

[rockymtnchief]

I use pepper spray all the time. You don't even have to hit the dog with it. Put some in the air, they'll get a whiiff, and gladly leave you alone.

Besides, before I ever enter a fenced yard, I whistle and make noise to see what comes running to the gate. I don't just barge in.

I'm not saying he was wrong for shooting a charging dog. It just seems to me that it could've been avoided.

[wutamess]

Originally Posted by rockymtnchief

I'm not saying he was wrong for shooting a charging dog. It just seems to me that it could've been avoided.

By not shooting potato cannons in the first fuggin place.
I completely agree.

[CoMoChief]

Dumbass cop. Pepper spray would EASILY stop a dog.

Eh oh well. They're Jeff Parrish Cops.....I deal with those assholes all the time at work. Some of the shadiest people I've ever had to deal with.

[Demonpenz]

It's not the killing that bothered me, it was the rape afterwards

[Bob Dole]

Bob Dole can't wait to see it on the upcoming episode of Steven Seagal: Lawman.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by wutamess

By not shooting potato cannons in the first fuggin place.
I completely agree.

It's a potato gun.

They didn't have a meth lab.

My buddies and I built a potato gun in high school. Hell we took it out on the school's football field to see how far we could get it to shoot. The damn thing had interchangeable barrels for different sized stuff and a complete guidance setup. It was on wheels and we needed to go in through the school gate. It's not like we were covert about it.

And nobody gave a rip. Potato guns have been around for approximately as long as aerosal cans. This is little more than a cop covering his ass by trying to shift blame to a guy that was engaging in relatively benign behavior (a damn sight more benign than discharging a firearm, evidently multiple times, in a residential area).

Furthermore, exactly what was the cop doing coming right through the gate without as much as a knock on the front door? Just exactly what would they have done had it actually been gunfire? The kids were evidently inside at that point so it's not as though they were sprinting into the middle of a potential gunfight, things had gone quiet. There was no reason at all not to announce your presence there.

The cop acted stupidly. I'm sure it was within some very broad set of protocals, but it could have easily been avoided.

Oh yeah, and Newell Normand is a dick. "Darn kids should've been inside reading a book, grumble grumble". **** you, heyseed. Don't tell me you never blew something up in your late teens, early 20s. You live in Jefferson Parrish, don't act like you're some high-falutin' intellectual. You've caught your share of ants on fire.

[Jilly]

I had no idea someone could get arrested for a potato gun...had I known, I totally would have had that old man arrested who was firing one around the church last year.