Woman Nabbed For Stealing From Fundraiser Honoring Fallen Yarmouth K9 Officer

You didn't specify large dogs. You said K9s. Some agencies use much smaller dogs for things such as drug detection. They are K9s also but hardly killers. I also must have missed the part of the curriculum where K9s are trained to kill. Not in this country.

This felon, with 126 charges against him, shot and killed an officer and his K9 to avoid being served a warrant. You, Burgers Allday, are callous in your posts and try to make it look as if this felon was unjustly targeted. Hiding in the attic, waiting with a weapon, killed an officer just doing his job. Your thinking is mighty skewed, in my opinion. You, sir, are just another troll. May God bless and protect our LEO and our first responders!

"And again, as outlined by another commenter, there's no such thing as defending yourself against lawful police action."

Right, a suspect can only defend herself against "excessive force." But sometimes the use of the K9 unit is excessive force, especially in cases where the K9 is likely to cause death or seriously bodily injury. It is quite likely that the use of Nero was use of deadly force (or that the suspect reasonably perceived that) and that there was not sufficient justification for using deadly force here.

If Gannon got in the backdrop behind the fur missile then that is sad for his family and friends, and also for us here at Blue Lives Matter, but, from a legal perspective his death might just be collateral damage.

Of course large dogs are deadly weapons. That is why police officers frequently kill them.

Natural bodily reaction is to protect itself.

@Burgers Allday Yeah no. Nobody has the right to use deadly force to ‘defend’ themselves from lawful arrest, even against a K9. The police, however, DO have a right to use the K9 when apprehending a felon with 111 charges on his record who is running while unlawfully in possession of a firearm.

No, police don't get to use deadly force just because a person runs. And this is especially true when the deadly K9 units are what causes the person to run in the first place (which is apparently what happened in the house on Blueberry Way that fateful day). [revised now that I understand that Gannon was a person: it is not clear whether the defendant was trying to stop the attack of the K9 unit, Nero, and Gannon got into the backdrop, or whether defendant meant to kill Gannon]

Burgers all day. While you are entitled to your opinion, please keep it off of a site that was taliking about theft from an event for a fallen officer. You have no idea of his family’s needs or how the department raises funds for training and acquiring these dogs. You showed just how insensitive and ignorant you are. Stop filling this site if this is truly how you feel.

@Burgers Allday Hey, if you’re stupid enough to a.)be a criminal requiring police to come after you to hold you accountable for you crimes, and b.)run from said police meaning they use a K9 to apprehend you, then that’s on you. Make better life choices I guess. Also, I’m not sure how police use K9s to ‘punish people against whom they cannot get charges to stick’ unless they’re setting them on people as they leave the courthouse.

Burgers Allday said (edited): [deleted this post because it was written on my incorrect understanding that Gannon was a K9, which he was not. It is perfectly fine to have fundraisers for families of fallen human officers, especially in cases where their departments do not provide good insurance]

K-9's are law enforcement like his partner. Don't commit a crime then the "fur missile" won't attack!! Moron!!