This is an absolutely horrendous story. I have no pleasure in sharing this news, and I don’t want to see it any more than you do. But this is egregious, and it needs to stop. He won’t even be charged for it, because his superior officer says that he was acting within his duty by shooting a dog in a fenced yard. That’s why we need to make this heartless murderer – Wynnewood Police Department’s Josh Franklin – known for his heinous crime.
Eli Malone’s birthday will probably always be a painful reminder of what has probably been the worst day in his very young life.
“We had just brought the kids in to give them cake and ice cream,” Vickie Malone told the Daily News. “We weren’t even in the house five minutes and then ‘bang!’”
“Mama, something wrong with Opie,” Eli cried.
Everyone hurried to the window to see the three-year-old American bulldog-pit bull mix lying on the ground. The adults rushed outside to find him “kicking and gasping for air” on one side of the fence as Franklin stood on the other.
Rio Youngblood, Vickie’s son and Opie’s owner, asked the officer why he shot his dog. But as he lay dying, the family knew that there was no saving him, and asked the officer to put Opie out of his misery.
“He walks slowly out to his car gets an AR-15 and points it at the dog and pulls the trigger,” Rio said. “He fires another round and it ended my dog’s life. He lowered his head and drove off.”
The “blank-faced” cop could hear “every one of these kids screaming and crying” as he shot Opie again.
Franklin said that Opie apparently tried to attack him through the fence. But the Malones don’t buy his story.
“The dog cannot jump the fence,” Vickie said. “The gates to our yard are tied with wire and shoe string. The dog could maybe have gotten his head through the fence but he wouldn’t have been able to open it.”
The reason Franklin was there was because he allegedly had a warrant for a man whose last known address was this one. But the case was from 10 years ago. The Malones have lived at the address for a year, and Franklin knew that.
“Officer Franklin had been to the house twice before,” Rio said. “Opie was chained on the front porch. They knew Opie was here, too.”
“He said that he was looking for Shon McNiel,” Vickie commented. “I said ‘There’s no one here named Shon McNiel. Who the hell is Shon McNiel?’”
Police Chief Ken Moore fully stands by his officer. He claimed Opie attacked Franklin as he was coming around the corner of the house. However, this contradicts what Franklin originally stated, which was that the dog attacked him through the fence and he had to kick him off. Opie was shot and died near the gate.
“We have a right to defend ourselves so I stand by my officer in the decision that he made.”
Rio’s son Vrylend is devastated by the murder of Opie.
“I came outside last night and he’s on the trampoline,” Rio explained. “He said ‘I’m singing to Opie’s heart. I miss him.’”
People are rightfully enraged about Franklin’s unnecessary shooting of Opie, and have started a fake Wynnewood Police Department Facebook page to castigate them.
Never EVER call the cops or 9-11 for anything that you can possibly handle yourself…
This is but one more example pf the danger of the “thin blue line”…
The family didn’t call 911. Can you read?
“The reason Franklin was there was because he allegedly had a warrant for a man whose last known address was this one.”
Yes, I can read. As most cop responses are due to 9-11 calls, NOT calling the cops for any reason is the only logical course of action.
I should have been clearer in my response…
No excuse for this. It had to be pre-meditated. Unless they serve 10 year old warrants with an AR-15 this copfuck should be fired.
And the fuckers wonder why they “have become the bad guys”?
The dog was reaching for a gun.
He made a furtive move towards his collar while disobeying lawful orders to lay down.
Pit bulls are the number ONE canine killer of children. Pit bulls alone have KILLED more people than every other breed COMBINED, every decade since 1851, and over 60% of the victims have been KIDS. http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com. He did them a favor, although I’m sure they’ll be stupid enough to go out and get another.
I’ll bet you’re a racist biggot too!
Did them a favor????
You don’t write stupid shit often … hardly ever, in fact … but, when you do it’s a real doozy.
Perhaps we should just dispatch copfuks all over Amerika to dispatch pets you don’t like? Have you turned into a statist nutjob? We already lost El Coyote to the Dark Side, we can’t afford to lose more.
Also, I call bullshit on you “facts” above. You don’t know jack shit about pit bulls.
Wait just a minute…… EC’s new moniker may be weird and annoying but that does not mean he is demon possessed. Don’t drag him in as a dog hater.
My issue with El Coyote runs far deeper than pit bulls.
He is anti-Trump. In my binary world, he is a foe, a lover of the Dark Side.
Of course he’s against Trump. He’s a Mexican. Like that judge.
At least your name is about right; you certainly are a Cad.
I’m not a pitbull fan, but I’ve known folks who were perfectly fine with theirs. They just weren’t the ignorant type of ignorant shitheels who beat and train their dogs to fight.
Shooting a little kid’s dog is just pathetic.
I had a charging Doberman come at me once, one that was running loose not one in someones yard, and I stopped it its tracks with a CS/CN spray canister. The thing stopped instantly and just staggered away sort of sideways and backwards tripping itself in the process.
Haven’t seen that stuff in many years and don’t know if it is still available but it would seem to be a very effective alternative to an AR15 rifle in a domestic yard dog threat situation, wonder why the police don’t carry it for that purpose?
They do. When I worked security at a hospital I carried the same, with much the same training.
These chickenshit assholes are just trained to kill by their Israeli trainers, and since the hooknosed sheenies are afraid of dogs, the copfuks are trained to shoot them all…. That, and SF hate dogs for their alarm capabilities, and copfuks think they’re the local ‘roid-version of Delta Force.
Just another copfuk post on TBP. Nothing to see here, move along.
http://blog.dogsbite.org/
Cops shoot and dogs bite. What is your point AWB
See why I left Oklahoma?
had a bullet took an unexpected trajectory out of the dog, there could have been other casualties.
this sick motherfucker doesn’t even deserve to be called a “cop”.
he may have a cousin in Florida
No worries, if a stray bullet had hit one of the kids they have that “covered” with qualified immunity.
Wheres the warrant?
If there is one, how was it reasonable to go to this address looking for that person 10 years later?
If it was reasonable to serve it at this address why didnt he knock on the front door and converse with the adults instead of trying to sneak onto the property?
From this its unreasonable for the officer to have taken the actions he toom leading up to this encounter even if the dog did attack.
My family and i go for walks in our neighborhood all the time. I have a ccw license and cc everytime. If a vicious dog literallu foaming at the mouth was trying to attack my son in the street on public property and i shot the dog i would have been under more scrutiny than this officer. That tells me the rules dont apply equally and shit be fucked.
Not all cops are bad but the ones covering for their brothers arent good either. The cop apologists will never see it otherwise but thats simply a mental disorder, nothing can be done for them.
And cops wonder why cowardly motherfuckers (there’s some irony for ya) are murdering cops in cold blood?
Perhaps the cowardly sheople, starstruck by the example being set by the “hero” class, simply want to emulate them by killing them. Sounds every bit as plausible and heroic to me as the justification being offered up by the upper echelon *heroes*.
@Anon,
Mace is the genericized trademark of Chemical Mace, the brand name of an early type of aerosol self defense spray invented by Allan Lee Litman in 1965.
It can still be found easily, Dick’s carries it for ex.
Story from yesterday…
RICHMOND — The police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man during a brief scuffle in 2014 has retired from the agency but will continue to collect half of his final salary tax-free for the remainder of his life.
Officer Wallace Jensen, 33, who worked at the police department for eight years, received industrial disability retirement, effective this April, said police Chief Allwyn Brown.
Jensen stands to earn $70,700 annually from the disability retirement, according to CalPERS, and will be eligible for cost of living increases.
The rest of the story is here http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30158860/richmond-police-officer-who-killed-unarmed-man-receive
So a guy shoots someone and gets $4 million for it? ($70,700 x 50 years life expectancy + 1% COLA). Good job america.
Motherfucker.
I keep saying, cops are going to keep being targeted. That cop came around just to kill that dog, and for no other reason.
I would be seriously pissed if that were my dog. Seriously. Pissed.
True that….
I’ve known quite a few people who tried to become cops. Some were good people who wanted a career where they could make a positive difference in their community. Others were the Oakley wearing types that were picked on in high school. None of the people that I thought would be honest cops are still involved in law enforcement. The sociopaths and retards are all still cops.
I believe that in the police academies there is an indoctrination process that teaches the police belief system. The most important tenant is that there are two groups: Cops and assholes. Some cops drink that Kool-aid and some don’t. The ones who don’t move on so we end up with cops who will lie or plant evidence to protect each other. At a certain point people get fed up with abuses of power.
The only real answer to this sort of incident and trigger-happy cops in general is to disarm them with lethal weapons and give them bear or pepper spray, with a shotgun that stays in the cruiser ONLY to be used if they need to return fire.
My wife’s father who was an english teacher at the local high school. He hated cops because he said his most stupid and deranged students were the ones who always became cops. And why didn’t the dumb fucker just go to the front door and ask the residents about the person.
Wait a minute, I’m looking at this wrong. The AR-15 shot the dog not the dumbass cop.
“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress”.
Thomas Paine
Had this been my house, the story would be much different.