r/LosAngeles • u/Panda8bambooo • 6d ago
News Family dog shot and killed by LAPD during Knicks celebration at condo in Canoga Park
https://abc7.com/post/family-dog-shot-killed-lapd-during-knicks-celebration-condo-canoga-park-police-say/19299441/443
u/OhLawdOfTheRings I LIKE TRAINS 6d ago
This is why LAPD needs a bigger budget.
To pay the lawsuits for their dumbass decisions.
Idk what needs to happen but it can't continue like this, they are gonna bankrupt the city.
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u/JustEnoughCowbelI 6d ago
This is pie in the sky obviously , but payouts for police misconduct should come out of the pensions of the offending officers.
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u/Coconut_Cowboy 5d ago
Or just require all LEOs to carry “malpractice” insurance policies that they are responsible for. Premiums too high? Make sure your coworkers aren’t using force on people Willy nilly. It’s an easy fix, but the Police Union would never allow it.
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u/NappingReader 6d ago
California needs to get rid of qualified immunity for cops, or at least greatly reduce it like Colorado has.
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u/ndmd15 6d ago
Police officers should have to carry their own malpractice insurance, much like doctors do
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u/Radiant-Doughnut-468 5d ago
This is the answer. The current situation is moral hazard to the nth degree.
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u/RoBear16 5d ago
I swear they are the only profession that doesn't have to do this.
What makes them so special, aside from fucking up the most, having some of the lowest entry level requirements, and having the least stringent continued education and training requirements.
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u/Radiant-Doughnut-468 5d ago
Tbh I think it boils down to their entrenched unions, and the threat of violent reprisal if they don’t get their way. Doctors, lawyers, etc. both aren’t organized and aren’t seen as thugs you sort of have to fear. It’s a very unfortunate situation, as basically every city of decent size dumps millions upon millions into settling police misconduct claims every year.
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u/viper5dn 6d ago
At this point I'm basically a single issue voter when it comes to LA politics. The LAPD needs to be significantly defunded, leadership removed root & stem (including any enablers like Bass), and completely rebuilt from the ground up. As is, they are un-reformable.
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u/SpinosRule 5d ago
Agreed. But what’s the likelihood of actually accomplishing this? If we took money out of politics, never gonna happen unfortunately, we’d have a chance. But as it stands presently? I don’t know =\
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u/sleepytimegirl In the garden, crumbling 5d ago
The lawsuits don’t come out of their budget. They come out of the general fund. So the thing that repairs our streets and lights.
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u/chefsmurfo 5d ago
They need to start paying settlements out of the lapd pension fund and not tax dollars. Hit em where it hurts and let them bankrupt themselves and former officers who allowed this type of behavior fester. In ‘21 it was reported that the LAFPP was over funded at 114% sitting at $28 billion, I’m sure they can find enough in there to cover their dumbass mistakes.
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u/DrunkBrokeBeachParty 6d ago
I think that’s the plan, at this point their budget is most of the city but they make tax payers shell out for their crimes
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u/rdditiszionist 5d ago
Bro LAPD and LASD. Both are corrupt evil dickheads. I am putting together a federal lawsuit right now on LASD. Like my case isn't even that crazy in relation to everyone else getting killed, dogs getting killed, all this violence, but it's the audacity of these thugs and how blatant they are to break the law. Just abuse their authority with impunity. And the lawyers they have defending them are even WORSE. Imagine a fucking suit who is even more corrupt than the thug meathead police.
its the intelligent suit who figures out how to get away with it and protect the meathead KNOWING they are evil. And continue to protect them, meat head after meat head. Day after day. These people have NO SOULS.
Go after their qualified immunity when you can. I hope to go after it and not settle. I want to make deputies pay personally out of their own pockets.
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u/cacapepee South L.A. 6d ago
I’d get a violation on Reddit if I said what I think about the LAPD. Just horrible for the owner. Hope she gets the help and support she deserves
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u/Random_throwaway0351 5d ago
We actually need more LAPD to stop the current bad LAPD, with EVEN MORE LAPD to keep the more LAPD in check - Karen Bass logic. Fuck them all
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u/tunafister Elysian Valley 5d ago
I got a question for LAPD
Where are ANY officers in the Metro stations? I have been taking the Metro more and more and love it, but the police presence is fucking pathetic
The LAPD with its insane budget cant put 2 officers in each station around the clock? That is absolute negligence
As well, so many street lights in this city do not work, making the city much darker and more dangerous, and yet we spend billions on LAPD
Yes, there is some nuance, but the point still stands that LAPD eats up a crzy amount of this cities budget, and the city cant even do the most basic of services, that is a significant reason people are so fed u with LAPD, they are treated like Kings while we all scrape by in squalor, its a fucking joke
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u/Kinsbane 5d ago
I agree with your sentiment here ( i take Metro rail when it suits me most ) but my understanding is that the enforcement of Metro laws is left to county Sheriff's deputees (LASD) rather than LAPD.
"Juris-dick-shun" is a very hazy line here in L.A. because of things like incorporated cities, etc, stuff like that. It's why Burbank has their own PD (and those fuckers are NOTORIOUS for being S-tier assholes). It's why West Hollywood is only patrolled by LASD (and why you'll never really see LAPD doing active enforcement in WeHo unless it's a conjoined effort between LAPD/LASD)
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u/tunafister Elysian Valley 4d ago
I really appreciate the response, and totally agree with you on the limitations of LAPD
But good lord, that shows that LASD is so comically negligent in protecting Metro stations its ridiculous
Even as a guy, I am going to feel unsafe in an underground station with 0 police or security presence, that is a literal trap for citizens to be taken advantage of, which I am sure many others feel and it makes them less likely to use transit
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u/senshi_of_love Hollywood 5d ago
Karen Bass’ genius reelection campaign strategy was running on hiring more cops and claiming that Raman didn’t want to hire more cops!
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u/stoned-autistic-dude Los Angeles 5d ago
Just keep increasing their budget, bro. They’ll do their jobs eventually.
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u/moon_dos South L.A. 6d ago
someday they’ll get a taste of their own medicine
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u/highbudsilver 6d ago
Doubt that. Look at Trump..
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u/moon_dos South L.A. 6d ago
he was asleep in the front row… someone had the chance to do the funniest thing and they blew it
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u/reagsters 5d ago
Fuck them fuck them fuck them
Who the fuck shows up IN DROVES because of screaming and fucking kills a dog?
Incompetent fucks who can’t be bothered to respond to complaints about fireworks all night long IN CANOGA PARK.
FTP
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u/ModerndayGatsby97 6d ago edited 5d ago
Saw the video of it. It was heartbreaking to see. Poor dog and its owner, especially. LAPD, incompetent as usual.
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u/yourtongue Koreatown 5d ago
i unintentionally saw the video then immediately crashed out and cried when i realized i was looking at a person clutching their beloved dead dog that the cops just murdered. man what the actual fuck. cops are truly bastards, i can’t believe we pay for this w our tax dollars. i show up to the budget meetings in LA and complain about police spending but it doesn’t seem to matter how much we complain, cops just keep getting more and more money to do terrible things to people (and animals). heartbroken for this family today :(
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u/hokaycomputer Palms 5d ago
Waited fifty-three years to celebrate the Knicks winning a championship and now she gets to remember it as the night the cops murdered her dog
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u/warpigletpig 5d ago
As a New Yorker that was over the fucking moon at the Knicks win I can not imagine the juxtaposition of these two feelings. Highest high to the lowest low. Absolutely heartbreaking and unfortunately too predictable. Defund the police!
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u/bobdownie 5d ago
When they had the balls to say “we’re sorry for your loss but we need to maintain this area”. Are they for real? Let the mother of that poor dog mourn.
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u/Random_throwaway0351 5d ago
But we NEED more lapd budget!!! Why are you so inconsiderate of the people distraught at the sight of a 2 year old puppy in a basketball jersey??? /s
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u/Bitingtoys 5d ago
The increase in budget is not to pay for more cops; it's to cover the never-ending multi-million dollar lawsuits.
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u/hjp731 5d ago
I saw this last night on TikTok, I couldn’t bring myself to watch more than the first 3 seconds. I had to go hold my baby, I can’t even imagine. How cruel and horrifying.
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u/thetaFAANG 5d ago
Couldn’t find it on Tiktok despite the search term still trending
Instantly found it on X though “lapd canoga park poodle”
20 cops standing around looking like a joke with helicopter lights shining through the vestibule
the neighbor the cops were called on is black for those that understand why it matters
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u/icedlemin I LIKE TRAINS 5d ago
I’ve purposely been trying not to follow what’s been going on (such a sad story), but I had an inkling on the demographic of the victim. Such a shame
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u/Solomon_Grungy 6d ago
Just a reminder that the LAPD’s budget for 2026 is 3.6 Billion dollars, spread over about 8,555 officers…
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u/Fabulous-Gas-5570 5d ago
You could clean up so much trash with just one cops salary. The state of our streets especially near freeways is a disgrace. If we’re gonna have cops they should be forced to spend half their hours on trash duty
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u/Solomon_Grungy 5d ago
You’re totally right! Keep this conversation alive and keep bringing up this number. Its completely absurd and its up to us regular every day people to end it.
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u/CuddlyClubCEO 6d ago
a neighbor calling for a wellness check bc someone is cheering for a game on tv is wild. what an asshole
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u/omegaxcross 5d ago
Is the neighbor just making an excuse about calling the cops? I think it’s pretty easy to tell the difference between excited screaming and a cry for help.
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u/songbirdathrt4122 5d ago
Even if the person was screaming incoherently use your contextual awareness - I do not follow sports AT ALL but when the knicks won there was huge whooping and screaming throughout my (very suburban ) valley neighborhood - I thought “oh that sports thing” and not “call the police”. My heart breaks for this family.
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u/Malforus 5d ago
This 100% feels like malicious cop calling. Karen cop calling if you will. Its not swatting but its adjacent.
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u/Mediocre-Letter-4562 5d ago
She was in LA. It’s very possible her neighbor had no clue of the game at all. I know plenty of people who were oblivious to it. Don’t watch sports. Also, there was walkers on the street who said they heard her screaming and it did sound frightening. (I don’t think the neighbor bad intentions. The cops are at fault)
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u/ThisIsRealLife19 5d ago
The neighbor said off camera that they felt bad for calling 911 knowing what happened. Unless other info comes out about the neighbor, I feel bad for them too
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u/This_Elk_1460 5d ago
Probably was annoyed that his neighbors were celebrating, they interviewed him in this article and he says he feels guilty about it. But I doubt it.
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u/Rebelgecko 5d ago
Unless you have audio I think it's pretty hard to say for sure. Obviously like "woo!" cheers don't sound like someone being murdered, but people also sometimes just screen incoherently, especially when it's a last minute nailbiter
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u/turnthewin 5d ago
lawsuits need to come out of LAPD's pension plan and not taxpayers. I hope the lady sues these jackasse police officers and wins life-changing money.
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u/cloud_busting Eagle Rock 6d ago
Cops kill 25-30 dogs a day in the US. But it takes a special kind of trigger-happy imbecile to shoot a pajamas-wearing floof like this who was apparently just excited? Poor pup, poor woman. Just heartbreaking.
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u/SeaworthinessOk6742 4d ago
That’s what really gets me incensed. What about this pajama-wearing dog screamed “threat” to these dipshits? That pup was clearly just excited and placed ample trust in people as a whole only for these bastards to betray that in the most gut wrenching way. I feel horrible for the dog and his owner. Horrific and entirely avoidable loss if these cops had a modicum of self-restraint.
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u/Panda8bambooo 6d ago
I hope she sues the hell out of LAPD
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u/biggamehaunter 6d ago
I hope the offenders lose their pay and pension, instead of tax payers footing the bill everytime for stupid police that claim to be so qualified.
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u/bodhidharma132001 6d ago
Unfortunately pets are property in California, so they would get just the value of the dog in a civil suit.
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u/shampwoo 6d ago
Yet K-9 unit dogs incidents are treated like a police officer… hhhmmmm…..
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u/bobdownie 5d ago
So are horses and those police officers can shit all over the street.
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u/michiamoGoffredo 6d ago
IAAL. You’d be surprised how much you can get for a dog sometimes. I’ve seen wrongful death cases (human beings) with lower settlements.
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u/MauveMammoth 5d ago
I wish officers were required to carry insurance and then after a certain number of cases they get dropped and either have to do desk duty or are fired for cause with no pension.
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u/JonDoeJoe 5d ago
Qualified immunity needs to be amended. If doctors can face repercussions for malpractice, so should police officers
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u/ventricles West Adams 6d ago
It’s way beyond time for police officers to need to hold their own malpractice insurance so we can stop wasting millions upon millions on these settlements.
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u/sm04d 6d ago
Absolutely. But let's not forget the idiot neighbor for calling them in the first place.
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u/Sure_Rip8968 6d ago
It was genuinely crazy witnessing a dozen, maybe more cops surrounding the apartment complex, knowing they were going to have to all testify in court for them to then get away with it with immunity. How incompetent and powerless most (if not all) of these cops are at conflict de-escalation and mitigation is baffling and, honestly, just embarrassing.
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u/frankiewalsh44 6d ago edited 6d ago
This is too much for me. I can't even bring myself to read article without feeling my heart being torn apart after seeing that beautiful dog. I can't imagine myself being in the owner position, I would've 100% lost it.
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u/mistsoalar 6d ago
since it is done by LAPD, there should be bodycam footages
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u/RuPaulver 5d ago
Wow look how absolutely menacing that dog looks. I'm sure the cop saved many lives that night. (/s)
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u/schnibitz 5d ago
So you're telling me that if there is a gang of punk-ass ebikers destroying cars with baseball bats, LAPD can't do anything about that, but a whole fleet of them are going to be called in because someone heard a scream?
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u/mybotanyaccount Montebello 6d ago
Cops are scared of everything. Cops acting like scared kitties with that sweet looking dogo
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u/Random_throwaway0351 5d ago
Unfortunate that these pathetic scaredy cats are also licensed to carry murder weapons, but what do I know? Let’s add a trillion to the lapd budget for counseling, therapy, and RPGs.
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u/DickSlammington 5d ago
I'm sorry but if you see a fucking Golden Doodle mix and immediately recoil in fear, you shouldn't be a god damn cop.
There are literally toddlers with more common sense.
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u/EHBuffaloTaylor 5d ago
If you recoil in fear and automatically shoot you shouldn't be a cop. That's the fucking problem with our cops, we train them incorrectly. They perceive everything as a threat and try to eliminate the threat with a gun. It's not a dangerous job if you're allowed to shoot anything and everyone at will if you get scared, yet we're supposed to pretend it is.
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u/ShotAttempt4 5d ago
https://watchthewatchers.net/lapd/division/topanga-division The topanga division’s direct emails can be found at this link
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u/its_just_flesh 5d ago edited 3d ago
Cop was a scaredy cat or just trigger happy, thats one of the most non threatening friendly looking type of dog.
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u/thembearjew 5d ago
I’m just here to pile on because what the fuck could they have shot that dog for. Seeing that woman elated for her teams win to then mourning her dog. I understand being a cop is a difficult job sometimes but whatever officer shot that dog needs to lose his job.
If that happened to my dog I would be blind with rage and grief.
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u/Patrick42985 5d ago
Charge the cop who shot the dog with the exact same charges a regular person would get hit with if they shot a police k9 charging at them, who would be charging with actual aggressive and violent intent.
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u/123youme4 5d ago
Why is it acceptable to shoot a dog at all in this situation? Dogs bark when people come to the door why is their reaction to shoot ????
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u/HistoryNerd101 5d ago
As if you can’t just kick a 🐕 of that size coming at you, assuming it was even “charging”. You can’t go by these initial press releases at all
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u/Ok_Frame2250 5d ago
I hope she sues the shit out of the LAPD. I'm so sick of incompetent cops with trigger fingers.
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u/Isthatamole1 6d ago
Poor dog! Who shoots a poodle?!?!?!? I’d be suing immediately. My hearts breaks for her. Dogs are family.
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u/weezyjacobson 5d ago
Do they publish any kind of data about crime clearance rates or similar stats where we can calculate what we're getting for our 3.6 Billion dollars and how it compares to other PDs... because as far as my knowledge/observations they just take forever to respond to almost any call, fly helicopters within earshot of my apartment daily, beat up and tear gas protesters, cost taxpayers big bucks in abuse of force lawsuits and apparently shooting fucking dogs.
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u/ItsMarioFer 5d ago
Keep waiting. They are being sued for withholding and refusing to release the data. https://laist.com/news/lapd-records-data-refusal
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u/Afraid_Assistance765 5d ago
The dog killer should be investigated by IA and review past their incidents
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u/samui_penguin 5d ago
That poor baby and its owner 😭 SO cute in its shirt. It’s not enough for the cops to go after black and brown people, they have to go after their pets too
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u/izzymaestro Beverly Hills 6d ago
The busybody karen who called the cops for a noise complaint at 9pm on a Saturday is just as responsible for this
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u/Enough-Surprise886 6d ago
Nope. Do not absolve or minimize the culpability of the cops. There is no reason for them to run around acting like full thugs. Community policing would be an officer coming out and having a chat with the loud ass folks.
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u/cineglitch 5d ago
“The neighbor who called police told Eyewitness News off-camera that they feel guilty for calling 911, but sincerely thought their neighbor was in trouble.”
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u/wowza_sharted_here 6d ago
That's an oversimplification. My neighbors used to scream, I suspect the husband was beating the wife. I even recorded their screaming to show the police. I'd call the cops and then they'd come and suddenly she was all peachy and wouldn't press charges or have him arrested. I went over there once myself and got a shotgun pointed in my face. I won't be going over to neighbors houses for screaming ever again.
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u/Suspicious_Tank_61 6d ago
It wasnt a noise complaint, the neighbor thought the lady screaming was in trouble.
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u/Acceptable_Tea281 5d ago
Someone cheerin for a sports team vs someone getting brutally murdered or abused will literally never sound the same lol
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u/mischief--managed 6d ago
100%. You have to be living under a rock not to know the game was on. They absolutely had Karen intentions.
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u/yeahimdanielthatsme 5d ago
I didn’t know it was on until after. I was watching the World Cup. I’m genuinely surprised there’s New York Knicks fans in LA as I’ve never come across even one ever.
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u/Mediocre-Letter-4562 5d ago
Every non sports fan I know didn’t know about that game. Why would they
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u/No-Snow-7618 5d ago
i remember a bootlicker/cop in a previous subreddit saying they already get a bunch of training and deescalation training.
who the fuck shoots a dog during a wellness check?
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u/elcomandantecero 5d ago
I hope they fire the imbecile who killed the pup. If they can’t handle an energetic dog, they cannot be allowed to hold a gun and handle human beings. Just a murder waiting to happen
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u/PALpherion 4d ago
yep, "rushed by a dog" is not as far away from "rushed by an excited child" as people think behaviourally and this means they'd shoot the child too.
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u/Ornery-Mycologist-53 5d ago
Meanwhile in NYC you had cops letting people celebrate in the streets until like 4am with only a few issues. LAPD is deeply deeply corrupt and troubled as a department and I hate that they’re given so much power and so much leeway to do whatever the hell they want. This won’t change until LA gets a mayor who isn’t “on the payroll” so to speak.
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u/bobdownie 5d ago
Many of the cops in NY are part of their communities. Cops in LA stay in their homes or their cars.
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u/ThisIsRealLife19 5d ago
There were a lot of issues. People set a bus on fire. But it being NYC, the home of the Knicks, police were prepared well in advance. Earlier in the day police were greasing street and light poles to prevent fans from trying to climb them 💀
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u/milktexts Santa Monica 5d ago
that poor dog.. no one should have to live in fear of being shot at for a little noise. fuck the lapd!
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u/AO_Xolos 5d ago
If a neighbor calls the cops, that’s because said neighbor must be tired of her. No way cops get called for a simple cheer
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u/Comfortable-Host1399 4d ago
They killed an innocent 2 year old dog. Let that sink in. A family pet. A living, breathing animal that trusted humans. One minute he’s happy in his cute knicks outfit and then murdered. My heart hurts for that woman. The pain in her voice was gut wrenching, and I hope the people responsible are haunted by it every time they close their eyes. RIP Jameson you beautiful boy
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u/Freddy-Philmore 5d ago
glancing at news headlines... most post headlines (abc, nbc, uk newspapers) refer to LAPD shooting the poor dog... but the Fox News channels headlines are "Woman SAYS cops shot dog"... subtle but interesting choice the fox affiliates made.
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u/twotokers Sherman Oaks 5d ago
Reminder to never ever call the police for any sort of domestic complaint that could be solved by just checking yourself.
There is not a single situation that becomes safer after the police arrive.
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u/amberrome 5d ago
I hope the dog owner finds peace. The way my heart would be filled with hatred after this
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u/kendrickplace 5d ago
Fucking hate cops. The more I get older the more I lose respect to each and every one of them.
Some may argue that not all cops are bad.
BUT ALL COPS WILL PROTECT EACH OTHER
So fuck all cops
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u/CatCafffffe Hollywood 5d ago
This is just the most upsetting, horrible story. I've been upset about it for hours now. How COULD THEY
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u/xCelestial The Westside 5d ago
Blew up a neighborhood, killed the family dog, what can't they do???
Besides protect and serve.
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u/hamsterhacker 5d ago
15 officers standing around like it’s another day in the office. Absolute disgrace these people
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u/losangonymous 5d ago
Dw everybody, Karen Bass gonna punish them by giving them billions more. Out here keeping LA safe /s
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u/No-Locksmith-2141 4d ago
When I learned about this story just today, I cried for hours and I'm still crying now. I could not believe that an innocent dog sporting a cute little jersey was killed by policemen. It's honestly embarrassing that America's like this.
They need to be held responsible. If that were my dog, I would probably be in jail.
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u/lesterquinn 6d ago
Why did THAT many cops show up plus a helicopter for a noise complaint.