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Rose T.
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From: Mary Shaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Tennessee Police
It appears this whole situation was the culmination of a series of
misunderstandings that ended in tragedy. I am
I can comment on this story as I live in TN. The details make it all the
more horrible. It was two carloads of family members. Parents and one
child(and dogs) in one car and grandparents and two other kids in the car
behind. It was not just one police car but THREE. Only the driver in the
first
A dog that I loved very well that was owned by a nearby friend was shot
and killed by police in Philadelphia. It was another situation that any
dog owner would have been happy to accuse the policeman involved of
stupidity and unreasonable behavior. The dog had been attacked by
another dog a week
It appears this whole situation was the culmination of a series of
misunderstandings that ended in tragedy. I am not going to either
defend or accuse the officer, but let me just say, things are different
here in the south. Many, many of our more rural counties have no
animal control agency -
It is easy to condemn this police officer, but before we rush to
judgment, we perhaps should attempt to put ourselves in the shoes of the
officer.
Police officers must react with amazing rapidity to all kinds of things
that most of us could never even dream up. They must make split-second
Diana,
I saw a writeup of this story. The man had filled his gas tank and left
his wallet on the top of his car by accident. Someone found it and
thought a robbery had occurred, an APB went out as a possible robbery,
the family was pulled over, the people were pulled out of the car and
