The Washington Post: Teddy, a fluffy, 13-pound deaf and blind Shih Tzu mix, stumbled around a stranger’s yard. He was lost. Then a police officer pulled up. Within minutes, he fired two shots. Teddy, a beloved 5-year-old pet, was left lifeless. Now residents are left furious with their city, which found no wrongdoing.

Teddy, a fluffy, 13-pound deaf and blind Shih Tzu mix, stumbled around a stranger’s yard. He was lost. Then a police officer pulled up. Within minutes, he fired two shots. Teddy, a beloved 5-year-old pet, was left lifeless. Now residents are left furious with their city, which found no wrongdoing.

An officer was called to help a blind, deaf dog. He shot him instead.www.washingtonpost.com Teddy, a 13-pound dog, had escaped his outdoor kennel in Sturgeon, Mo., when police came to help find his owner. The city found no wrongdoing by the officer.

Cops are like a box of chocolate, they’ll kill your dog

I scrolled past and had to scroll back up after my brain finished parsing this to say: holy shit

It’s a classic for a reason!

I'm today's lucky 10,000!

Heh, I get that reference!

Acab

Sigh…*taps the sign* bsky.app/profile/nosa...

Oh no, see if you peel back a thin blue line flag, you’ll only find a dead dog, because cops love shooting dogs almost as much as they love beating their wives almost as much as they love assaulting unarmed protestors almost as much as they love murdering people in mental health crises.

#ACAB

“was left lifeless” 🫠

"The dog was Kristi Noem'ed"

PSA: If you find a blind shih Tzu wandering around in your yard.. do not call the police

Just don't call the cops to begin with. They make every situation worse with their trigger happy presence and stupidity

all cops are bastards, and all Washington Post writers are passive voice hacks

Police literally can shoot anyone or anything stone cold dead for any or no reason, with NO accountability and this is one thing that comes from being awash in a sea of firearms making everyone trigger-happy, trigger-scared, trigger-stupid and making up big fat lies to explain it away

The only thing the cops like better than threatening to kill dogs to extract a confession is actually killing dogs.

To be fair, police will usually do the same thing to a blind, deaf 5 year old child.

Perfect use of cop tense here, no notes

All cops

The use of passive voice here, what the hell. You can't try to tug heart strings and also attempt to grant the killer plausible deniability.

The cops do this to get a paid vacation. I'm not even joking. They know that if they shoot a dog they get at least two weeks of paid vacation without any repercussions

#ACAB

Fuck.the.police. Unless fucking thugs. The cop that did this should be jailed.

*Goose chasing meme* Left lifeless how?

Why do people still even call the police? It’s time that we must, in society’s defense, disabuse ourselves of that wrong old idea that police can help or provide services. And I say this as an old white woman, raised by a police.

police.help

AC, and I cannot possibly stress this enough, AB.

Was left lifeless? Fuck y’all—you are part of it.

When it comes to a dog, the media (almost) outright says the cop fired and killed the dog. When it comes to black people, the media invents new English grammar to make it as passive as possible.

Eventually someone will take matters into their own hand. This is why you can't just sweep justice under the rug; it leads to vigilantism.

Yup

Why all this outrage reporting? This is a local or at best regional issue, it is NOT national or global news - you are just feeding outrage. This is a very bad way to be the 4th Estate.

My posts bring all the trolls to the yard … I was not defending the cop - what happens is awful & stupid & the cop needs to be investigated- obviously. I was criticizing Wapo for posting THIS story on Bluesky for outrage clicks. All of your outrage replies made my point for me… 😉

You might want to wonder why you often seem to be surrounded by outrage.

Yes because that's clearly why they commissioned a story, reported it, fact checked it, published it and sent it automatically to socials. Just for outrage clicks on a niche social media site.

When everyone around you is an asshole to you, it’s time for self reflection.

youtu.be/cLJrQj-ClMk?...

Justified | "You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole" | 4Kyoutu.be Raylan Givens : You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

It’s okay to be mad about awful things that comport with broader patterns of awful things in society. You could make your claim about any tragedy that’s an isolated example of a societal problem. And people have, and they’re wrong to do so every time.

"needs to be investigated" Is it being investigated or has the city concluded that the officer did no wrongdoing, directly putting a halt to any further investigation? Do you think *national outrage* might cause the city to reconsider their already-concluded investigation?

Man, you guys always tell on yourselves with your emojis. “I’m not triggered, trust me 😉” All you needed to add was a few 🤣 emoji for some more authenticity.

All “politics” are local. Everything is local. If you aren’t paying attention, you are staring off into space.

So WaPo should not report on national outrages which affect everyone? is that the point you’re trying to make?

you just suck as a person 🫡

Rude

Labeled by Bluesky Moderation Service

Learning yet?

"I'm not defending these scumbags, I just don't want people to know what they did!" OK bro...

The Washington Post📰 is a national newspaper of record. Of the four in the United States, the Post excels at coverage of government, politics and the public sector. This story clearly falls into that area of specialty. All of the above are things you don’t seem to understand given your statements.

It’s MSM, are you surprised they would used outrage to gain clicks? I’m certainly not

How's that been going for you?