“We don’t have any way of taking care of a dog,“ an officer told the dog’s owner, Bryan Pennington.

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    Have these people not heard of animal shelters, or are they too lazy to take the dog to one?

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    If the only tool you know is a gun, every problem looks like a target.

    Dogs, suspected shoplifters, black people in a white neighborhood…

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    “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?

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      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!”

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      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.

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      That takes more time and effort than a bullet.

      I will never call cops for a lost animal. What a shitty outcome.

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        Never call cops unless you want someone dead, and don’t mind if it’s yourself. And that goes 10x for PoC

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    The police are far from anyone’s friend.

    Cops kill dogs when they enter houses, it’s one of the very first things they do.

    Cops just love to kill small harmless animals! Cops just love to kill!

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    The cops resent it when their job involves anything but murder. Don’t call the cops unless you’re prepared for something or someone to die.

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      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.

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        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.

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    Note to self: if you find a lost child in Missouri, don’t call the cops

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    I don’t believe in hell. But there are days when I hope with all my being that I’m wrong.

    May they reap what they’ve sown theeefold. With harm to none but them personally, so mote it be.

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      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.

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    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