Man Shoots K-9 Dog to Death

A 58-year-old man was shot by officers this morning after an eight-hour standoff in which he shot a police dog to death.
The standoff started around 5:45 p.m. Sunday when officers went to Keith Richardson’s Hollywood Homes/Maple Hall house on the 1100 block of Land Street after getting a call about a man who’d armed and barricaded himself following a domestic dispute, Norfolk police Officer Melinda Wray said in a news release.
When officers arrived, Richardson’s wife told them her husband had held her at gunpoint and threatened to kill her, Wray said. But, the wife told them, she escaped and fled to a nearby house.

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Please read the entire article, especially what the neighbor says and how the neighbor's story differs from the police story. The shooter is not your ordinary type thug. He was a fire arms instructor at a local gun shop.

bicycleman said:

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Please read the entire article, especially what the neighbor says and how the neighbor's story differs from the police story. The shooter is not your ordinary type thug. He was a fire arms instructor at a local gun shop.

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Okay, I read it. Where is the bias?

He shouldn't have shot the police dog for a lot of reasons.

bicycleman said:

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Please read the entire article, especially what the neighbor says and how the neighbor's story differs from the police story. The shooter is not your ordinary type thug. He was a fire arms instructor at a local gun shop.

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Not having the facts, I won't comment directly to the specifics.

But this is why these events need to be recorded.

If not by the authorities or press, then by the neighbors.

Chomsky said:

Not having the facts, I won't comment directly to the specifics.

But this is why these events need to be recorded.

If not by the authorities or press, then by the neighbors.

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Out of deference to Tres Borrachos, I guess I put this in the wrong forum. Maybe, I should have put it in law enforcement so I will just have the moderators move it over there.

In any event, you won't get the truth from the police. They have circled the wagons and are staying tight-lipped. I tend to believe the neighbor because Keith Richardson was a respected manager at a local gun shop, that I have dealt with over the years, though I didn't know Mr. Richardson, since I purchased a gun and gun safe from the shop before this guy was employed there. Media bias? It looks like the media is reporting the truth for a change and questioning the police's account. There is media bias in a sense, though, because just think if this guy had been black. The left would have been all over it, but since this guy is white, then nobody is saying anything except his neighbor, of whom I think sounds very credible. I have seen filmed accounts of this news as well.

tres borrachos said:

Okay, I read it. Where is the bias?

He shouldn't have shot the police dog for a lot of reasons.

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I used to think that police dogs were trained to only keep the suspect in place, but now it appears they attack the suspect savagely trying to rip him apart, and that would appear to be what happened according to the eye witness account. I know that back in the 60's, every now and then a K-9 cop would pull up next to me at a traffic light. I would glance over at the dog in the back of the truck, and just because I looked at the dog, the dog would go crazy. That happened more than once. I should have realized then that what the officers said about what the dogs were trained to do, hold the suspect, was total BS.

He shouldn't have shot the police dog for a lot of reasons. Could self-defense be a reason?

tres borrachos said:

Okay, I read it. Where is the bias?

He shouldn't have shot the police dog for a lot of reasons.

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According to the neighbor who saw it, he was getting his own dogs when the cops shot him in the leg and then released 2 police dogs on him. He shot one as we was being attacked by them.

The question is, do they consider dogs to be cops? Would this guy be charged with killing an officer? He shouldn't. He should be charged with damage to police property at most, but if what the neighbor said is true, then there's more trouble on the police's side.

Ikari said:

According to the neighbor who saw it, he was getting his own dogs when the cops shot him in the leg and then released 2 police dogs on him. He shot one as we was being attacked by them.

The question is, do they consider dogs to be cops? Would this guy be charged with killing an officer? He shouldn't. He should be charged with damage to police property at most, but if what the neighbor said is true, then there's more trouble on the police's side.

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If he's doing it in self-defense... and being attacked by a dog is a life-threatening situation... then he shouldn't be charged with anything.

Disclaimer: General comment. Don't have time to read the article right now, but will come back to it later.

The man, who shot the police dog died 3 days later. He was shot not once but twice. The second round, probably a .223 hit him in the belly and went up and damaged his intestines and heart.

Here is a video shot by the next door neighbor of the guy being attacked by a second police dog with all the officers standing around. The guy does not display a weapon at all in this video. The Norfolk Police Department had a big thing about the police dog's funeral, but I still wonder if siccing this other dog on him wasn't a bit much. The guy is down and if you listen, it sounds like he's yelling to the cops to get the dog off him. He is not a threat at this point.

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Especially, read the comments below because before folks saw the video, they were maligning this man. Now, after seeing the video, their eyes have been opened, and they are questioning the police's motives and wondering whether this man was murdered.