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Commerce city taxpayers have just been hit with a $262,000 bill for a settlement in an incident where someone’s dog was needlessly shot and killed by police.
According to the report, On November 24, 2012, Commerce City police responded to reports of a “loose, vicious dog.” When officers arrived on scene, a small woman was able to get the catchpole around the dog’s neck. However, officer Robert Price felt it necessary to taser the dog, whose name was Chloe, and then shoot her five times.
The graphic incident was captured on a neighbor’s cellphone and was used as evidence in the case.
The disabled owner of a dog shot to death by Colorado police officers is now suing law enforcement officials. Courthouse News Service reports that Gary Branson is suing the Commerce City police for tasering the therapy dog and then shooting it to death.
On November 24, 2012, a neighbor of Branson’s in Commerce City called the police about the dog Chloe, who was allegedly on the loose. While the police said it was a pitbull, the owner says the dog is not that breed. According to the ABC affiliate in Denver, the police said they spent 20 minutes trying to gain control of the dog. They claimed Chloe acted aggressively towards them when the cops approached the dog.
But the owner, Branson, disputes that story. His lawsuit claims that the four-year-old dog was “a captured, wounded, defenseless dog that had not ever attacked anyone, had not bitten anyone, and never moved aggressively toward the officer.”
The dog was hit by a taser, but then got back up. After that, the police tasered her again. But after an animal control officer named Arica Bores was capturing Chloe, Officer Robert Price shot the dog and killed Chloe. The whole incident was caught on tape by a 12-year-old neighbor. The video sparked outrage in the neighborhood. The lawsuit says that the police lied about the shooting. “Officer Price deliberately lied when reporting that Chloe 'charged towards me in an aggressive manner and stopped 15 feet away.' This did not happen,” said Branson in the lawsuit.
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The $262,500 settlement ends years of legal battles between Commerce City's police department and local man Gary Branson, owner of a mixed-bred therapy dog.
In November 2012, police responded to a 911 call about an "aggressive" dog roaming a neighborhood. "I called police because I saw a dog wandering loose out front," Kenny Collins later told NBC 9 News. "He never came at me in an aggressive manner." However, during his 911 call he actually stated, "We got a dog that's aggressive out here … It's like a big pit bull mix something. He's outside of our house, barking out our windows and stuff. [He's] barking at our neighbors. He's a big one. If I tap on the window he keeps barking at us [and] being confrontational - and we're in the house."
Collins' neighbor was dog-sitting the Branson's 3-year-old dog named Chloe and thought she had closed the garage upon leaving her home. With the garage open, Chloe left the home and wandered the neighborhood. "I am happy that we have been vindicated," Branson said. "She deserved justice for what happened to her. This has been a very difficult time for me and am glad that it is now settled."
originally posted by: Murgatroid
One article I read said that this was a therapy dog and the owner was disabled.
It also said that the Officer deliberately lied about the dogs breed (appears to be a lab-pit bull mix) and what she did as well...
The disabled owner of a dog shot to death by Colorado police officers is now suing law enforcement officials. Courthouse News Service reports that Gary Branson is suing the Commerce City police for tasering the therapy dog and then shooting it to death.
On November 24, 2012, a neighbor of Branson’s in Commerce City called the police about the dog Chloe, who was allegedly on the loose. While the police said it was a pitbull, the owner says the dog is not that breed. According to the ABC affiliate in Denver, the police said they spent 20 minutes trying to gain control of the dog. They claimed Chloe acted aggressively towards them when the cops approached the dog.
But the owner, Branson, disputes that story. His lawsuit claims that the four-year-old dog was “a captured, wounded, defenseless dog that had not ever attacked anyone, had not bitten anyone, and never moved aggressively toward the officer.”
The dog was hit by a taser, but then got back up. After that, the police tasered her again. But after an animal control officer named Arica Bores was capturing Chloe, Officer Robert Price shot the dog and killed Chloe. The whole incident was caught on tape by a 12-year-old neighbor. The video sparked outrage in the neighborhood. The lawsuit says that the police lied about the shooting. “Officer Price deliberately lied when reporting that Chloe 'charged towards me in an aggressive manner and stopped 15 feet away.' This did not happen,” said Branson in the lawsuit.
shore-215.blogspot.com...
The $262,500 settlement ends years of legal battles between Commerce City's police department and local man Gary Branson, owner of a mixed-bred therapy dog.
In November 2012, police responded to a 911 call about an "aggressive" dog roaming a neighborhood. "I called police because I saw a dog wandering loose out front," Kenny Collins later told NBC 9 News. "He never came at me in an aggressive manner." However, during his 911 call he actually stated, "We got a dog that's aggressive out here … It's like a big pit bull mix something. He's outside of our house, barking out our windows and stuff. [He's] barking at our neighbors. He's a big one. If I tap on the window he keeps barking at us [and] being confrontational - and we're in the house."
Collins' neighbor was dog-sitting the Branson's 3-year-old dog named Chloe and thought she had closed the garage upon leaving her home. With the garage open, Chloe left the home and wandered the neighborhood. "I am happy that we have been vindicated," Branson said. "She deserved justice for what happened to her. This has been a very difficult time for me and am glad that it is now settled."