Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 18, 2010

Incidents in which police shoot family dogs are quite commonplace. Such episodes of ?puppycide??puppycide? rarely involve an actual risk to the officer.

On many occasions, citizens have been arrested and prosecuted on criminal charges for assaulting police dogs. In one case the so-called assailant was sentenced to eight years in prison for kicking a police dog.

Citizens whose dogs are killed needlessly by police rarely if ever receive redress. The same is true of citizens who are needlessly injured by police dogs.

Five-year-old Nazir Lowe of Salisbury, North Carolina was attacked by a police dog named Baks during an October 8 classroom demonstration. The dog vaulted on top of the terrified little boy, tearing at his neck and biting off part of his left ear.

Although the police department took the dog out of service, it hasn?t offered an apology of any kind to Nazir and his family. Had the situation been reversed, the dog would be dead, and someone would be in jail.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.