D.C. officer accused of shooting woman's pet dog
Witnesses say around one Thursday afternoon, they saw 4th District officers pursuing a man on a bicycle, near the 900 Block of Crittenden Street, NW.
Reynolds says one officer came up an alley, his gun drawn, and told her to grab her dog, who wasn't on a leash.
But then she says, "As my dog looked back, he began to shoot at my dog."
"And you're still holding onto him?" asked ABC7 reporter Richard Reeve.
She replied, "As I'm grabbing him. The officer could've shot me. I'm grabbing toward toward the dog and he's shooting my dog."
Perhaps most frightening, Reynolds says, was that the gun was pointed at her and her sister.
"I think the officer was really scared," Shana Reynolds says.
"Probably scared him more 'cos he pointed a weapon at us," she adds.
Thursday night, an MPD spokesman confirmed an internal investigation is underway--- that an officer did fire his weapon, and that a dog was shot.
Blue ran off, and was discovered by a neighbor at 7th and Shepherd, at least several blocks away.
He was later treated at an animal clinic in NW Washington.
Reynolds was cited $100 for not having her dog on a leash.
It's hard to know the truth about incidents like this; the woman probably thinks the dog was not being threatening, while the officer may have felt threatened. Nevertheless, cops have a history of shooting dogs for relatively trivial reasons during incidents. And since they're rarely sanctioned for it, the incidents will no doubt continue to accumulate. Here's a whole blog dedicated to incidents of dogs killed in "Law Enforcement" actions: Dogs that Cops Killed.
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