NY Cop Shoots Homeless Mans Dog

[fan4ever]

Right? Wrong? This should be interesting.

Sorry if repost; looked around.

[Demonpenz]

The dog is in a better place now... under ground.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Hacksaw Jim Duggan

What's with the homeless dude? Is he dead?

Seizure.
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[Chief Gump]

Originally Posted by tooge

**** you. A real man isn't afraid of a dog that weighs one fourth of his weight. That puss boy has been looking for a reason to pull his gun since he was told he couldn't make it in the armed forces and joined the police.

Have you seen what a dog can do to someone. I am a dog lover but if I have a fairly larger dog rushing me and I have a gun... sorry Fido.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by fan4ever

Dog actually is still alive and in stable condition although I guess they're not hopeful it will survive.

If it wasn't in the middle of the city with so many people around they probably would have put it out of its misery.

[Lzen]

Dog attacked, cop had no choice. Look, I'm a dog lover but I can't blame the cop in this case. I don't care that the dog was only 50-60 lbs. It looks like some version of a pit and they can do some damage. It's not like the cop can say "stop or I'm going to shoot" and the dog will understand.

[ottawa_chiefs_fan]

I love how everyone is walking around nonchalantely moments after a firearm was discharged in NYC. Like nothing happened.

[tooge]

i'd take that dog in a heartbeat. What a loyal dog. He was defending the shit out of his person. Very sad indeed.

[Ceej]

Originally Posted by -King-

Seizure.
Posted via Mobile Device

Looks like he's just on some sort of drugs.

"Like, hey maaaaaan... everything is upside down, maaaaaaan."

[Fish]

He's lucky the bullet didn't ricochet off the pavement and hit somebody other than the dog.

[Frazod]

****. I could only watch a few seconds of that and I wish now I hadn't even clicked on it.

And I think shooting it was a bit harsh, but I can see both sides.

[fan4ever]

Dude is passed out; either drunk or high...he's an addict I guess...and the dog has a history of biting people when the owner is zonked out...protecting him I guess. Shitty owner vs. shitty dog IMO. Here's the link to the site where I saw it.

http://www.kfyi.com/cc-common/news/s...ticle=10349352

[The Franchise]

You could at least post the description of the video.

A pit bull mix was pepper sprayed and shot by an NYPD officer on Monday afternoon outside of a KFC in the East Village at 14th St. and 2nd Ave. at about 4:15 p.m.

According to a passerby named Johnny Rodriguez, he and several other people called the New York Police Department, when they observed the man, identified by police as Lech Stankiewicz, having a seizure at the side of the road.

When police arrived at the scene, Rodriguez said, they attempted to approach Stankiewicz, but the man's dog, Star, was attempting to protect her owner from being harmed. According to Rodriguez, Star had already approached another passerby, Larissa Udovik, who got too close to her owner. An officer fired a shot at the dog, leaving her and the sick man suffering on the street.

A police source called the shooting "justified." The "video of the encounter" said the source, "leaves no question that the officers acted properly."

But others have criticized NYPD for how they handled the case. Doug Halsey, the director of Ready For Rescue, a non-profit animal rescue group, told the Gothamist that with irresponsible owners creating problems such as this, city police "need to be better trained to handle the situation and be equipped with the proper tools and taught how to use them to control dogs and other animals in situations like these."

Halsey was criticizing the use of pepper spray by another police officer on the dog, an act he said, that would only aggravate aggression.

Christian Pimentel, 21 told the New York Post, "It was just protecting its owner," while another witness, who did not wish to be identified, said, "They just let the dog bleed on the sidewalk, right in front of children."

A worker at a nearby KFC said that Star and the homeless man were both friendly and harmless.

Remarkably, both Stankiewicz and Star survived. Star remains in the care of the Animal Care & Control in NYC, said the East Village Local, but there also seems to be some discrepancy on how the dog is doing. According to Animal Control, the pit bull is stable, but the police source said that Star's outcome "didn't look very optimistic."

[Donger]

Well, I don't think I would have shot the dog, but I can't blame the cops for doing it. I wouldn't say that the dog was behaving particularly aggressively, although I'd like to see what the dog did when it ran off to the left out of camera.

Personally, I think they should have shot the dumb ass owner for allowing his dog to be off-leash in NYC.

[Demonpenz]

Talk about your Search and Seizure

[Donger]

Originally Posted by tooge

**** you. A real man isn't afraid of a dog that weighs one fourth of his weight. That puss boy has been looking for a reason to pull his gun since he was told he couldn't make it in the armed forces and joined the police.

You'd rather have had the cop(s) use their night sticks or tazers?