SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) — A proposed bill would make it a mandatory felony to intentionally kill or seriously injure a police dog or horse in the line of duty.
Right now, a district attorney can file either misdemeanor or felony charges.
California Sen. Ted Gaines, R-El Dorado Hills, is behind the bill. He said police dogs are important members of a department and they deserve more protection because they save lives.
“They are protecting against drugs. They are able to find a missing person. They’re able to find maybe someone that’s been killed. But also at the same time protecting citizens so that in certain situations you could use that K-9 dog versus something that would be considered more serious,” Gaines said.
Gaines said 10 police dogs have been killed in the line of duty in California over the past five years.
http://www.kcra.com/article/bill-seeks-stricter-charges-for-those-who-injure-police-dogs/19677984
But open season for your dogs!
What utter BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The problem with repugs is they are always in favor of more jackbooted thuggery.
So. For no reason other than the cop is a psychopath the cop sics his police dog on you and the dog tears you up but in defending yourself you injure the dog and stricter charges are levelled at you? Meaning, you are forced to let the dog kill you? Ahhhhh….Californication!
BTW, I am a dog lover. And I guess that means police dogs can also kill your dog! Gee, will the maimed pet dog also get “stricter charges”?
More police dogs killed in the line of duty than police officers is a hard piece of BS to swallow. Were they murdered? Or did they choke on a BigMac the doofus copper fed him? In the line of duty? Dogs make lines of dooty, they don’t die in them!
This site allows the reader to see how fake news begets BS legislation. We are being lied at from so many angles, it is refreshing to have a “just the facts” place like the Trenches. When the Federal Government is no longer restricted in its use of propaganda, the kid gloves come off and the haz-mat suit goes on.
“They are protecting against drugs.”
Seriously?
I have yet to see any drug attack a person.
“But also at the same time protecting citizens so that in certain situations you could use that K-9 dog versus something that would be considered more serious,” Gaines said.”
LIKE MURDER???
Naw, he can’t be talking about something the pigs these days don’t consider serious.