Whatever your thoughts/opinions are of pit bulls, this guy is a pathological liar and needs to be scrubbed from the police force. Someone who will do something this sadistic and then lie about it will do it to your dog next. Unfortunately, they let him quit rather than firing him so I'm sure he'll soon be hired on at another police/sheriff's office.
MISSOURI -- The police chief in Sparta submitted his resignation and will leave the department on Dec. 14, the city's mayor told the News-Leader on Wednesday.
The move comes after Chief Andrew Spencer was placed on administrative leave in late November when he shot a caged dog so that he could respond to a car crash. It will also leave the Sparta Police Department devoid of anyone to respond to crimes in the city of about 1,700.
According to a report posted by Spencer on the department's Facebook page, but later taken down, on Nov. 10, Spencer and a citizen volunteer responded to multiple reports of a loose pit bull.
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The report says Spencer eventually obtained a "catcher pole" (aka catch pole) and crate and forced the dog into the crate. Spencer ALLEGEDLY then tried and failed to find a shelter to take the animal, and decided that he would need to locate "the cheapest vet to destroy the dog at the cost of the city."
The report then says that while attempting to contact a veterinarian, Spencer was dispatched to a rollover crash at Sparta High School.
"Due to the higher priority call and the imminent destruction of the dog," Spencer writes in the report, "I decided it was best to destroy the dog and respond to the accident."
The report said Spencer then took the dog to the department's firing range, where he shot it once in the head before responding to the rollover crash. He later returned and buried the dog, the report said.
If the rollover crash was a priority, why wouldn't he have simply left the dog in the back of the patrol car and responded to the crash?? How much time did it take to drive to the firing range, take the dog out, tie it up and then shoot it? This is such BS.
Owner Elizabeth Womack wrote on her Facebook page how she attempted to contact the police and was lied to on several occasions about the incident. Eventually, she was told by the police Chief that he shot and killed her dog, and that they would be free to identify him if they wanted to go dig him up.
“I was told by a police officer that they didn’t catch any dogs that day. He said they got a call about Chase, but responded to an assault call instead. So we called for a whole week trying reach chief Andrew Spencer. He did nothing but give us a run around for days. So we called all dog pounds and shelters and rescue one where we got Chase from.
"A few days later we get a call from chief Spencer, saying he had shot a pit bull chow mix that he picked up in the trailer park down the road from us. He told us He buried him in the sludge field if we wanted to make sure it was him. We didn’t find any freshly dug holes anywhere. So we tried the Sparta shooting range but we only found a pile of burnt meth pipes, cell phones and pill bottles. Then we found out from our neighbor on Friday evening that Chase had been picked up from an unmarked police car in front of our house. So we call and call and call trying to get a hold of chief Spencer again. To pick up our dog.
"Finally, 5 days later, chief Spencer contacted us saying he dug him up and left him at the police station. We picked him up that night after work. He was wrapped in a garbage bag, no traces of dirt on him or the trash bag anywhere. We got the police report. It never showed who he supposedly bit. So we took our fur baby home after searching for him for a week and laid him to rest.”
Sparta Mayor Mike Younker said Wednesday that city leaders asked Spencer to step down as chief, but wanted him to stay on with the department as a sergeant. Spencer, who became chief in September, opted to leave the department instead.
Younker said the chief typically oversees two officers, but that those two officers left the position for jobs with the Christian County Sheriff's Office this week.
Younker said Sparta residents shouldn't feel too much impact, because the sheriff's office also responds to reported crimes within the city.
"I don't expect anything to change," he said.
Younker said the city is looking to fill all three positions — a police chief and two officers.
(News Leader - December 9, 2015)
Earlier:
I don't agree with your take on this.
ReplyDelete1) Pit shit lets her pit bull roam, where it would be out looking for a child or a normal animal to maul to death.
2) Officer captures the gripping mauler timely enough that it hasn't found a victim yet.
3) He puts it in a cage, knowing as we do that pit bulls are very good at clawing or chewing their way out of such cages very quickly. He looks for a shelter to take the frankenmauler.
4) Shelters are concerned about their 'live release' rate and are already flooded with ugly bulldogs no one wants (not even the ugly bulldog fans). They'd rather see someone else put this pit bull down, and they don't care how that's done as long as they don't have to do it.
5) Veterinarians play the 'poor misunderstood pitties' game and will put down any aggressive dog upon request...except a pit bull.
6) If he'd put it in his patrol car, he could well have been mauled on the way to the high school car crash.
7) The pit bull mafia terrorizes anyone who speaks or acts in a way they don't approve of. They demand the jobs and heads of anyone who says a true word about the pit type, anyone who defends their child or pet against a pit type, and any law enforcement officer that harms a pit type while saving a life.
So this officer found a killer on the loose and caged it. He sought a way to deal with it, but all the various 'pit-loving' liars and cowards backed off and wouldn't help him (shelters, vets). He had to go assist a citizen in a serious situation that -- unlike a pit bull attack -- was really an accident. He didn't want to leave an escape-artist mauler unsupervised, and rightly so. So he killed it the same way the beef on your plate is killed -- a well placed shot to the head. This is generally not considered a 'sadistic' way to kill an animal.
That he and the department tried to cover it up later is a result of the insane and violent behavior of the pit bull mafia, not a result of a habitual desire to lie.
The person who should lose her job and be prosecuted is the one who owned this pit bull and let it roam. No pit bull owner has a right to object to ANYONE killing their roaming pit bull, ANY WAY someone manages to kill it. No pit bull owner has a right to object to ANYONE lying to them, because pit bull owners lie all the time.
SHOOT, SHOVEL AND SHUT UP remains the creed. Thank you officer for doing this. I hope you quickly find a new job elsewhere, where you will continue to protect the public from roaming pit bulls as efficiently as you did this time.
My problems with the officer's story is that he said he received a rollover crash call and just HAD to get there to assist. Police cars have partitions that keep the prisoners in the back from making contact with the officer. This dog is inside a crate in the backseat. Even if the dog were to go crazy and tear its way out of the crate, it is still confined the the partitioned-off backseat. The dog wasn't going anywhere.
DeleteHow long did it take the officer to drive the dog to the firing range? How long were the victims in the rollover crash waiting for assistance while he was driving out to the firing range (ranges are typically on the outskirts of towns), park, haul the dog - which was still inside the crate - out, and then shoot it through the crate?
I would like to hear which shelters he had called and if they back up his story that they all said "don't bring it here". Also, Animal Control supposedly refused to take it? I want proof. It wasn't late at night when businesses are closed - the owner said she came home at around 3pm to find the dog gone so it had to have been late afternoon that this officer did all this nonsense.
I am no pit bull nutter. I post stories all the time about pit bull attacks and think they're inherently dangerous, but I'm just not seeing enough in this story to back this officer.