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Chicago Police Let Dog Out Of Backyard and Then Shoot The Family Dog On Christmas Eve

kobi-1226We have yet another case of a police shooting of a family dog. This case involved a particularly tragic
occurrence on Christmas Day. Kobi, a 70-pound Rhodesian Ridgeback mix was shot dead by a Chicago police officer. Chicago has previously appeared on these pages for dog shootings. The family says that the police opened the gate to the backyard where Kobi was being kept and then shot him when he came out. They were looking for a suspect. The police department insists that the officers acted appropriately.

Chanette Weaver said that she had just put Kobi in her closed, fenced-in yard at about 6:50 a.m. on Christmas Eve. She said, five minutes later, an officer came to the door and told her “Ma’am, your dog is dead.” She called the officers “heartless” and said that they told her “Ma’am, your dog was getting ready to attack one of my officers.’ And they shot him three times.” Police say that they shot the dog when it came to the sidewalk in a threatening manner. Weaver however said that the dog had been through obedience training and would not have attacked.

Police were looking for an escaped prisoner.

The family still have Kobi’s wrapped gifts under the tree. They now have a lawyer. The city previously paid hundreds of thousands in a recent dog shooting case.

Source: CBS

70 thoughts on “Chicago Police Let Dog Out Of Backyard and Then Shoot The Family Dog On Christmas Eve”

  1. Wow! This thread has taken a wild turn. JH, not all police are the “devil”. Those responsible for the wanton killing of the dog need to find a new job and the city needs to dig deep to pay the family for their loss.

    1. All of them are taught that a gun is power. You can’t deny that. Jesus would not consider a gun as power. Religious people kill.That makes police, and anyone who kills calling it good religious. Every time a police man kills it to them it is justified. Have a person kill a police man. The person killing to them is bad.

    1. Have police not valuing their soul, and panicking about their body thinking a gun is power will guarantee door rushing killing police acting like the people outside Lots house.

  3. “Police need to be killed by Gods glory even as the sodomites were killed by Gods glory like it will be in his second coming world wide. The police are evil evil evil personified. ”

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    Good. The next time someone is coming through your door at 2:00 a.m. or mugging you on a street corner, you can call Jehovah or Yahweh or whomever you pray to and relieve the cops from saving your sorry a… er …. butt and thereby putting theirs on the line for ingrates like yourself. It’s a perfect system — you meet your creator and they get to go home to their wife and kids.

  4. Hmm, maybe they should’ve surrounded the yard and then knocked on the door and asked her about the dog before opening the gate and shooting it. Just seems reasonable to me…

  6. Police need to be killed by Gods glory even as the sodomites were killed by Gods glory like it will be in his second coming world wide. The police are evil evil evil personified. The devil fears dying hence will kill. This killing is the most heinous devilish act I have ever heard the police do. They should be like Judas, and hang themselves for betraying our trust even as Judas betrayed Jesus. We do not need police doing this with the pretense of protecting us. They are liars of the nth degree. The premise that they protect is as much a heinous subtle beguiling lie as the devil in the serpent saying thou shalt not surrey die. There needs to be no plice zone signs put up everywhere so they can be safe from people that kill killing their own soul at the same time.

  7. The sad thing is that police are just as cavalier about shooting and tazing people because they rarely have to pay the price of their wrong doing. Unfortunately they are now so sure that they are all heroes and above the law that we, the people who pay their salaries, are all at risk. Arrogance, brutality, excessive force are all words I associate with the police. That is such a shame because there once was a time when police were seen as protectors and neighbors but I have not felt that way about them for years.

    My heart goes out to the family who lost their family pet in this incident.

  8. And I hope and pray that…

    THE CITY HAS TO PAY OUT THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS MORE! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

    Let us give this vagabond, this unworthy she-whore the benefit of the doubt, let us say that he was not aware that the dog was in the yard, he clearly shot it more times than is necessary: Clearly he had time to see that it was a dog. But he did not care; this little boy with his ejectile toy did not care, as long as he satisfied his manhood!
    [T]he fact that this dog was shot three times clearly, clearly demonstrates the animosity, the cruelty, the insanity of this waste occupying space…someone who should not only loose his job (as dogs also work for the Police Department), thus a societal demonstration of utter respect for these beloved creatures whose lives are always at bay, and who are made to stay in very hot (think summer) and very cold (winter) police cars for hours upon hours and worked to the bone like slaves; but clearly this savage does not deserve any job “protecting the people!”
    What part of a closed fence-in yard did he not hear and see a barking dog? LIARS!

  10. Many police have an “eliminate all possible threats” policy. The more self important they are, and can get away with it, they more it is enforced. The department could revise the use of force policy. You come up with the reason why they do not. With the courts beginning to recognize the seriousness of the cavalier attitude of the police and awarding larger settlements, perhaps the dollar will cure what civil ethics could not.

  11. About Thanksgiving a dog shooting case in Commerce City resulted in the officer being charged with felony animal cruelty. How come? A neighbor filmed the entire incident from inside his home, the video went viral, the Commerce City police department denied, denied, denied, the Adams County DA investigated (due to public outrage) the officer was charged.

    http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22232708/officer-charged-commerce-city-dog-shooting

  13. I hope that the family hires the same lawyer who sued the pigs in that other case which is cited in the article. The yard is part of the castle. The dog is part of the castle. Shoot the dog and we shoot you. No warrant? No right to come in. Exigent circumstance? Here is my exigent automatic rifle with a hundred rounds with one of them aimed up your utBay igPay. Screw you conservatives who want to take away our guns. You are all workin for the igPays and Koch Brothers or cokeheads.

  14. Please print the cop’s name and U.S. mail address so that we can send him something.

  15. This is another reason that God made rifles and automatic ones at that. If that family had a kid named Adam who had access to an automatic weapon then that dog would not have been shot. IgPay on your ouyYa. When you outlaw weapons only outlaws have weapons. This neighborhood needs a sniper. Someone go to opCays house and shoot his mother when she answers the door. Whats up with you lame schmucks in Chicago anyway?

  16. Obviously the police in that town suffer from cognitive deficits. If the dog was a genuine threat, the fugitive wouldn’t have hidden in that back yard! Morons.

  17. Sad fact of life, but proximity to a cop results in a dog’s life expectancy being shortened.

    Recommendation, don’t let a cop near your dog.

    In practical terms, that means not letting a cop into your house (good advice whether you have a dog or not),

    While cops are necessary (usually), they are not an unmitigated blessing. As citizens, it is up to us to know our rights and limit cops’ ability to disrupt our lives.

  18. One thing I’ve noticed about these stories about police shooting dogs, police confiscating cameras, police tasing the harmless, etc is that the news stories rarely name the cop.

  20. This time it wasn’t the Chicago Police Department, it was the department for South Suburban Hazel Crest.

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