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

    • Doug HollandOP
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      4710 months ago

      Next best thing to killing people, and lots less paperwork.

    • @[email protected]
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      3910 months ago

      It’s almost like there’s significant overlap between people who become cops and the psych profile of a serial killer.

      • @[email protected]
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        1710 months ago

        I believe the top three jobs for psychopaths are surgeons, lawyers, and cops. Don’t remember the order but there have been a few lists made.

        • Maeve
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          710 months ago

          You know, until i read that I would’ve guessed C suite personnel. Brb looking something up.

          • @[email protected]
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            1010 months ago

            Yeah I thought politician was up there too, but I guess most politicians are lawyers first.

            • Maeve
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              310 months ago

              Or at least went to law school. Which is sad. I always wanted to go for a jd to actually defend innocent accused.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          The first two are for psychopaths who are intelligent enough to realise that going along with society will result in the best outcome, enlightened self interest. The ones who become cops and/or murderers are the failures.

    • Flying Squid
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      2010 months ago

      Sort of makes you think that all cops might be bastards, doesn’t it?

  • @[email protected]
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    7410 months ago

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

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

  • @[email protected]
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    6710 months ago

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

    • RandomStickman
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      6810 months ago

      It would literally be easier to just tell the person to look for a shelter. They’re going out of their way to be heartless monsters.

      • flipht
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        2010 months ago

        They should have to carry malpractice insurance

        • Final Remix
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          510 months ago

          The behemoth that is their “Union” would never allow it. And they’ve got a fuckin’ cop-like stranglehold on things.

    • @[email protected]
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      2610 months ago

      It has probably been a few hours since they last shot something and they were getting withdrawals.

    • hamid
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      510 months ago

      There was probably no donut shop on the way

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      210 months ago

      It’s generally frowned upon to kill it at a shelter. Better to just murder it, leave it in a field somewhere and get back to drinking on the clock

  • @[email protected]
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    6210 months ago

    “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?

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      3110 months ago

      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!”

    • @[email protected]
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      1910 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1610 months ago

      That takes more time and effort than a bullet.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        2310 months ago

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

  • Alien Nathan Edward
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    5010 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      3110 months ago

      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.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        2710 months ago

        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.

          • chingadera
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            410 months ago

            Well shit, I guess the word dispatch is what made me assume otherwise. Acab, I hope you got it settled homie.

            • @[email protected]
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              210 months ago

              What actually happened was that I first called the non-emergency number and they told me to call 911. I guess it would have been funnier if 911 had then told me to call the non-emergency number instead of just saying “nah”.

              Fortunately it turned out I didn’t need the VIN verification after all.

    • Final Remix
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      10 months ago

      They probably “trained” with the Killology series by the aptly named shitstain, Dave Grossman.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        I’m surprised nobody’s ever filed a wrongful death or class action lawsuit against him specifically.

  • kitonthenet
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    3910 months ago

    The dog was no angel! Let’s hear the officer’s side of the story too /s

  • @[email protected]
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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.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      410 months ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    2510 months ago

    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

  • @[email protected]
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    2510 months ago

    Maybe they should have said that before taking the dog to murder it. What a terrible person. I hope he toys.

    • @[email protected]
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      2110 months ago

      Actually, Missouri is a native American word meaning “This place sucks”

      Incidentally, “Mississippi” is Iroquois for “most racist and generally awful state”

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          True! In fact, their unofficial state motto is “Thank God for Mississippi (making Alabama look less awful in comparison)!”

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        310 months ago

        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”

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        They’re right, my home state does suck >-< but I don’t see myself moving out any time soon

      • Liz
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        310 months ago

        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.”

      • Obinice
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        -1010 months ago

        This is false on both counts.

        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,”.