police officer fires weapon

[TXGunNut]

I had to shoot a dog on duty once, I could tell it's spine was broken just ahead of the hips. It was alert but in considerable pain, animal control was on call and response time (late night) would have been at least an hour. I'll do the paperwork.
As for the indoor squirrel hunting I'm sure a broom would have been my weapon of choice, shouldn't be hard to find one in a general store.

[buckwheatpaul]

"Clean up on aisle 4!"

[contender1]

Ok, I'm a State certified Animal Damage Control Agent. I also know that Tn has a similar program. That LEO should NOT have discharged his firearm, nor should he have used pepper spray. A call to the game commission, (or more likely to his local county dispatch) would have gotten a professional in there to deal with the squirrel. We have methods that are effective & NOT harmful to others.
As for him being fired,, well, the paperwork reason may have been an excuse,,, to avoid lawsuits etc.
Stupid guy doesn't need to be a cop.

[Bzcraig]

This guy definitely wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer with bad judgement to boot.

[leeggen]

Yes there are great leo's out there that we never hear about. It is just people think hunters are dangerous, don't know of many that can beat the last couple of law dogs in the news in Tn. Slowly we turn and step by step we see---- those that are to protect becoming more dangerous.
CD

[capt.hollis]

I hit a horse in 77. It mangled it pretty bad, it didn't need a brainsurgeon to tell there was no hope for ot. It was not daylight yet, so I had to stand out in the rain and direct Houston suburb traffic around it, which was dicey in itself. When the leo got there I ask them to put it out of it's misery, but they couldn't until a veternarian had looked at it, which took another couple of hours to get one there. Finally the only cop still there was going to shoot it with his service pistol. He pointed it between the eyes Then closed his eyes and turned his head before pulling the trigger, all he did was hurt the poor horse and get him all exited again. I was pretty hot at that, and told him to let me do it if he couldn't, but he said he couldn't and at least looked where he was shooting for the second round.

i had the exact same thing happen to me, except the cop handed me the gun, and let me finish the animal off. He seriously could not shoot the horse, but at least he let me do it, and jeopardized his job, but I promised to never mention his name, and never did. That was 15 yrs ago, never seen the cop again. I could had used it as a bargaining tool on my next ticket Darnet lol. Nah, couldn't had done that to him. Lol.

[azrednek]

Guess it is unfortunate that many cops are judged by the bad one. I could tell several horror stories of being mis-treated, being roughly arrested in a case of mistaken identity two times in my life. One incident of plain stupidity. I was cuffed and put into the back of a police car by a rookie female officer without being frisked. I had a revolver in my pocket!! Fortunately her partner had a brain and I was on my way in a few minutes.

There was a time however when I once needed a cop or better said, thought I needed a cop. I don't mind with the anonymity of the net saying I was scared shootless. The bad guy was long gone by the time police arrived but I was never so glad to see a cop in my life. I always keep in mind despite some bad experiences. If I dial 911 knowing an armed good-guy is on the way.

[FISH4BUGS]

Same thing happened to me in far western MA on Route 2 some 20 years ago. A doe had been hit by a semi truck (I doubt he even knew he hit her) and she aborted a fawn then and there. There was no hope for her (rear end pretty mangled and couldn't walk) and I put her down with my 357 just as a State Trooper rolled up. With his hand on his weapon, after checking my license to carry and having me secure my weapon, he thanked me for putting the deer down, for he said he would have had to do 2 hours of paperwork if he shot her with his service weapon.

About 1960 I witnessed a car-horse collision. After the Phoenix PD showed the officer asked several people if they had a gun to put the horse out of his misery. Finally a near-by resident went home got his 22 rifle and dispatched the horse with 2 head shots. The cops apologized to the crowd saying if they discharged their service weapon they would have to spend hours filling out paperwork.

[10x]

I had to shoot a dog on duty once, I could tell it's spine was broken just ahead of the hips. It was alert but in considerable pain, animal control was on call and response time (late night) would have been at least an hour. I'll do the paperwork.
As for the indoor squirrel hunting I'm sure a broom would have been my weapon of choice, shouldn't be hard to find one in a general store.

A squirrel is no big deal. Automatic doors let in other stuff
http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=...7-6c56567a2114

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjourna...7-e39a95e709b4

I know a farmer who had a bear who would habitually break into an oat bin. The farmer would go out every 2-3 days and nail the boards back over the door. One day he returned to the bin and discovered that the bear had broken out as he had nailed the boards on while the bear was in the bin.
I can't remember if he shot the bear or not...

[Danderdude]

I'm a 911 dispatcher in my day job (and working every day until next year) and in the one city of the four in the county without 24/7 animal control units, the officers use their backup guns on wildlife that gets hung up in barbed wire and wrought iron fences, yes, to avoid the paperwork of using their issued service sidearm. They have to supply their own ankle gun.

Subcompact .380's are just as good as full size .40's from 0-3 inches.

[Taylor]

I guess this guy was just a moron,like the cop who shot up a house on Tiny Town road here,never any follow up.Are these idiots able to read and write,do they have the ability for a thought process?

[jsizemore]

Ain't squirrels why they carry a shotgun?

[DoubleAdobe]

Many years ago, I was a brand inspector in a mountain region in Arizona. In the summer, there were quite a few cattle hit and injured, most that were reported were mortally injured. These were mostly state highways so state police caught the first call. Some horses but mostly cattle and as some have said, the officers had very restrictive rules if they busted a round to dispatch the hopelessly injured animal. Also, while a lot of you know what is survivable and what is not when it comes to animals, oddly enough, a lot of officers do not. He or she may have been raised in an urban area and just recently started working here. A steep learning curve I guess. Anyway, my job was to dispatch the animal and to identify it as to ownership and tie all the information together report wise, because of open range laws. Open range laws, except basically for municipalities and a few other specific areas in Arizona and most other western states means if you hit it, you bought it, or usually your insurance company.

[oldred]

Coincidentally I'm also located in TN and I know a county LEO that should be barred from owning a gun never mind being a law officer! I have known this guy since he was 8 years old and I know how he is, he is one of those guys who lives in a fantasy world and pictures himself to be a real tough guy that basically has a serious ego problem. Not only is he careless with firearms and actually even shot himself in the knee while trying to spin a loaded pistol but he has a bully type attitude, I have had no personal problems with this guy and my son was once a childhood friend but I know him well and he's definitely a danger to the community. IMO a bullying police officer with an inflated ego is worse than some criminals they are supposed to be protecting the public from but unfortunately there's a lot of them out there and they do indeed reflect badly on the honest hard working LEOs that we rarely hear about, overall the law enforcement community does not get the respect they deserve and it's because of an egotistical minority.

[OBIII]

To the good LEO's...Thanks for your service. Unfortunately, as has been stated before, the bad ones get the press. It does seem, however, that there are more and more reports of bad ones. Maybe it's a generation thing or something.
OB

[fatelk]

Was his name Officer Tackleberry???!!!

Couldn't have been; Tackleberry wouldn't miss!

A good friend of mine recently went through the academy to become a county deputy, and his nickname there was "Tackleberry". I'm sure it's easy to figure why.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Unfortunatly, Mtn. City, TN is one fo the those small mountain towns with bad meth/pill problems. I went to college 30 minutes from there, and I never met anyone from Mtn City with a lick of sense. If they had any they had probably already left. Sad but true, sorry if anyone is from Mtn. City, TN...