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Dogs Attack Police Car in TN and Are Returned to Owners

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As in the Jennifer Lowe case, here is a video of dogs attacking a police car and “getting away with it.” Quite literally, because first they ripped off the bumper cover, and later were returned to their owner. (Click here to see the video.)

Attorney Wayne Ritchie Jr. and I made Knox County pay for the horrific death of Jennifer Lowe, because the county animal control department failed to impound her killers before they mauled Jennifer to death. In that case, the pack of pit bulls had attacked a police car, attacked police officers, and generally terrorized the neighborhood – much like the dogs in this video.

So if the dogs in this video harm anyone, and Wayne or I get the call, another county will pay for its conscious disregard of its residents’ safety. Is there any other remedy for this? Yes: at the ballot box. Being soft on dangerous dogs is as bad as being soft on any other crime.

Written by Kenneth Phillips

March 26, 2010 at 3:27 am

Posted in News and Opinion

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  1. You would think news of the Lowe settlement would travel through the ranks of Tennesee Animal Control Professionals….Apparently, they need more “training”.

    Indianapolis Humane Society just adopted out a Pit Bull that had demonstrated aggression on several occasions…The dog only made it a few weeks in the neighborhood before mauling one of the neighbors. I would think that case would be a slam dunk.

    Triple A Andy

    March 26, 2010 at 10:23 am

  2. The news media is picking this story up as being funny. Nothing funny about it if you know how pits are. It could just as easily have been a child being done like that and children are done like that almost daily by pit bulls. Thanks to the “No Kill” movement, pits are literally getting away with murder.

    P.

    March 27, 2010 at 2:43 pm


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