"Cops involved in the killing of a pit bull in a Bronx apartment building will reenact the shooting for investigators trying to figure out why it took 26 bullets to subdue the attacking dog, a police source said.
Police chiefs said NYPD procedures were followed in the shooting in a hallway early yesterday that left one cop bitten and three other officers with graze wounds from what officials called friendly fire.
"The shooting was justified, period," said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne. "As with any shooting, the tactics employed, including the number of shots fired, will be examined by the firearms review board."
The four patrolmen and a sergeant will reconstruct the wild shooting at Rodman's Neck, the NYPD's firing range. A date hasn't been set.
Police were called late Saturday to 480 Concord Ave., Port Morris, on a report of a tenant-landlord dispute that involved a teen smoking pot at the building.
The suspect, Lenin Acevedo, who turned himself in hours later and was charged with marijuana possession, ran from his sixth-floor apartment to another flat on the fourth floor.
Acevedo kicked in the door and a pit bull named Cookie came sprinting into the hallway, witnesses said.
The dog locked its jaws around one officer's leg just after midnight, drawing at least two of the cops to fire from their 9-mm. service weapons. The graze wounds, a police source said, were suffered from ricochet gunfire.
"He was a good dog," said a 12-year-old boy whose family owned the pit bull. "He never bit anybody in his life."
The boy, whose relatives asked that his name be withheld, said he was in his bedroom playing with a PlayStation when the suspect ran into his apartment.
"They killed my dog and didn't say they were sorry," the boy said, adding that authorities seized a puppy from the apartment.
A witness said the dog was shot at least 10 times.
Authorities wouldn't identify the cops involved, but a source said the three wounded patrol officers were rookies.
One officer was hit in the leg and abdomen by bullet fragments. A second cop was grazed in the right leg, and another was bitten in the left leg.
A sergeant was clipped in the ankle.
The cops were taken to Lincoln Hospital, and all were in stable condition yesterday.
Meanwhile, the brain tissue of the dead dog was being tested for rabies.
'This is disgusting," said the 12-year-old boy's aunt, who wouldn't give her name. "What can you say about a situation like this?'"
Okay, so forget the inane headline. The cops fires AT the dog 26 times and may have landed 10 hits. And shot each other as much as the Pit Bull. If the dog bit one of them, then of course the shooting was justified, but what is NOT justified under ANY circumstances is the abject failure of these officers to hit their target with anything resembling a degree of accuracy. Sure they carry mace, the animal-sort of mace, too, the kind that is recommended for bear-country, but we'll give them a pass on that one because things happened so fast that firearms had to be brought into play. Sure they use 9 mm's...9 mm's loaded with Gold Dots, but they also use the infamous NYC Trigger which increases the pull to something along the lines of 10 lbs and it's funny watching them try to qualify with these guns, but stops being funny when time after time they shoot up the neighborhood.Ever see Gold Dots ricochet? And fragment like that? Hand-selected, bonded Gold Dots that they pay a premium for? Costs the NYPD more than it does you or I to have a human carefully examine each and every cartridge sent to them. The project manager from Speer tells me that Gold Dots will not fragment unless they've entered soft tissue and expanded their petals. Could the lads and ladesses have used non-approved munitions? Gasp.
The NYPD has NEVER answered ANY of my queries regarding their weapons or ammunitions, and when I threatened to employ the freedom of information act they went hardass and pretty much told me not to get caught in their City.
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