Ms. Christopher got $25,000 for her dog in court.
$25,000
Someone shoot my dog (who is a very gentle, meek little girl) and my dog would be the very last fur person you kill.
Below is the video.
Yes the dog ran towards the police.
But, consider this, the police officer came onto his owner's property with no warrant, no call, he just appeared and it's a long very long dirt
stretch road (driveway)............the cop had no business what so ever and he had ample time to get in his car plus this was not a huge dog.
$25,000
I seriously would not sell my dog for $25 million dollars - and I have a lot of bills. My dog is now a part of my family.
*** Warning video is not bloody but does show a policeman shooting a dog dead in the dog's front yard.
This breed is not known to be a aggressive breed.
And all they can say is "Oh the cop acted a little prematurely".
Oklahoma woman to get money for dog's death
By Associated Press
Published: 3/31/2009 7:29 AM
Last Modified: 3/31/2009 7:29 AM
CHICKASHA— Grady County commissioners will pay $15,000 to a woman whose dog was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy who had stopped to ask for
directions.
Tammy Christopher initially asked for $25,000, alleging deputy Sean Knight "grossly overreacted" when he killed the dog on Aug. 25.
Her attorney, James B. Brunson of Oklahoma City, declined to comment on the settlement, citing a confidentiality agreement.
A tort claim filed in September accused the Grady County Sheriff's Department of trying to justify the shooting by claiming Christopher's dog,
Bruiser, had been aggressive.
Christopher contended she never received any complaints about her dog, according to the tort claim.
Sheriff Art Kell said he didn't know any details about the shooting because it occurred before he took office. He did say deputies have the right to
defend themselves.
Knight was serving a tax warrant last summer when he stopped at Christopher's house near Blanchard to ask for directions.
He walked to the front of his patrol car before retreating as the dog approached, as seen in a surveillance video Christopher posted on YouTube.
Knight shot the dog when it closed in on him.
"It was just unfortunate," Kell said.
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Definition of POLICE STATE
: a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power
by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly
known legal procedures
I wonder with dogs, little girls
www.youtube.com..., old defenseless people, peaceful protestors, how much more
of this are we going to take?
Most Police Persons are good honest hard working people, but it seems like more and more of this is happening to people who are not criminals, who
just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Some will say this is old news and so what, $25,000 will buy a lot of dogs.
But from a legal stand point, this policeman came onto this lady’s property and the dog was protecting his pack leader, he did not bite the police
man and the cop did have enough time to get into his car.
So, in closing – everyone out there, if you really really love your dog, keep them on a leash and while you let them outside in your completely
fenced in back yard, go out there with them, be with them – because it is a crazy, mean, sick world we live in now.
A world where the police sometimes (not most times) do not protect and serve, they abuse their power of authority and can murder your beloved
companion at will.
Be warned, be safe.