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4-Year-Old Accidentally Shot By Columbus Police Officer

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“I did hear the gunshot – it was very loud,” he said. “At first I thought maybe he’d shot the dog, because she was saying something about ‘Why would you try to shoot the dog?’ and he said something like the dog was attacking him, or something like that. Then, she started saying ‘You shot my kid!’.”

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...entially-shot-by-columbus-police-officer.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...irl-4-shot-officer-firing-dog-recovering.html

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/06/19/whitehall-officer-involved-shooting.html

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=columbus+pd+officer+shoots+4+year+old+kid
Conflicting versions of the incident.
 

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It

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NEGLIGENCE.


http://armeddefense.org/safetyrules

1) Treat every firearm as if it's loaded.
2) Never point a firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy.
3) Always be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
4) Keep your finger off the trigger until you are on target and ready to fire.

How many rules did the trained professional violate?

Criminal action? Maybe.
 

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NEGLIGENCE.


http://armeddefense.org/safetyrules

1) Treat every firearm as if it's loaded.
2) Never point a firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy.
3) Always be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
4) Keep your finger off the trigger until you are on target and ready to fire.

How many rules did the trained professional violate?

Criminal action? Maybe.
No, not negligence, and likely not criminal either, he did not violate any of the safety rules, he did not violate policy, maybe, he simply missed hitting the threat. The kid will survive, the city may pay medical bills, at a minimum.
 

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Spend some time at the range. Spend some of that time shooting at moving targets. Set up some of those moving targets so they are not square on to you.

stay safe.
 

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2) Never point a firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy.
3) Always be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
4) Keep your finger off the trigger until you are on target and ready to fire.

he did not violate any of the safety rules, he did not violate policy, maybe, he simply missed hitting the threat.

IDK, if he had managed to adhere to the above 3 rules, then a little girl would not have been shot by a cop.
 

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...he simply missed hitting the threat...

What threat? They are trained to treat dogs as targets without question. Officer safety, and all that.

Cops are so-called professionals. At what point can we expect them to start EXPECTING a dog, and ask questions about dogs before entering properties/homes?

I fix air conditioners for a living. I meet a dozen new dogs a day on their turf. Even the few that I've been leery of haven't needed a bullet. What am I doing wrong?
 

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I fix air conditioners for a living. I meet a dozen new dogs a day on their turf. Even the few that I've been leery of haven't needed a bullet. What am I doing wrong?

You don't act like an hyper-aggressive, power-tripping, donkey-behind.

Dogs sense that sort of thing.
 

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And this incident is about open carry??????? OHHH, The dog must have been open carrying. It must have been a Woof, Woof 45 I See Pee.
 

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God bless that poor cop. I am assuming since the dog was such a threat and he missed, the dog must have mauled him to death yes?
 

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No, not negligence, and likely not criminal either, he did not violate any of the safety rules, he did not violate policy, maybe, he simply missed hitting the threat. The kid will survive, the city may pay medical bills, at a minimum.
He missed a PERCIEVED threat... no story I read shows the dog posing any actual threat to the officer, merely a dog running towards a new person entering it's property... as all dogs over 5 pounds do.

And if policy allows him to fire at any and all dogs merely for thinking they might pisossibly hurt him, the that policy is wrong and must be changed post haste.
 
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