Well, *that* was surreal. I heard gunshots coming from outside…

…and open the blinds to discover that a cop had just shut a dog. Something like five times. Then more cops showed up, and then some neighbors, and then they left, and then an Animal Control person came to body-bag the dog, and then they all left. And before you ask; this is a calm, middle-class town house development filled with respectable two-parent families who have largely moved here in order to get away from the excitement that is Southeast DC. So, no, gunplay is not common here.

Note that I have no idea whether the dog had it coming.

Moe Lane

PS: I did not take pictures. Maryland cops can get funny about that, and frankly it wasn’t my dog.

12 thoughts on “Well, *that* was surreal. I heard gunshots coming from outside…”

  1. The cop shut the dog? I should hope so. Who leaves their dog open in the summer time?

  2. There has been a rash of dogs getting shot by cops lately, many under suspicious circumstances.

    1. There has been a rash of police behaving badly.
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      My thought is they’ve been too focused on military-style tactics and not thinking through strategy *at all*.
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      A lot of cops are also national guard, and we’ve been over-relying on the guard because “peace dividend”…
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      Mew

    2. You raise a valid point, I’ve seen all kinds of stories these days of police using excessive force. This is clearly getting ridiculous.

  4. 10-15 years ago, my default position would have been to back the cop. Today, I automatically assume that the cop has more gun than brains or respect for rights…. And I get that that isn’t fair to the good cops in this country: all 15 of them have my apologies for lumping them in with the rest.

    1. I have an analogy, but I will probably get the bam stick for using it.

      I will say, however, that the good cops never seem to denounce the bad ones like the soc-cons denounced the murder of George Tiller.

    1. My error.
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      I meant to paste in ‘Got Rabies?’
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      I accidentally copied something I wrote for something else, and had decided not to use.

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