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crime [Music] well Captain this is a story that took place last year and one that I've been
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pretty upset about because it has made no progress in the year that has passed so this information Captain is from Fox
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16 news and the Malvern Daily Journal this is about the hot spring County Arkansas Sheriff's Office they say the
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sheriff's office is mourning the loss of one of its own a nearly four-year-old canine Deputy named Lucky the canine had
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been with the sheriff's office for a couple of years but only with his Handler since February of 2017. sheriff
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Mike Cash said since the dog's death the dog's Handler is no longer with the Department Sheriff cash said it has
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nothing to do with Lucky's death but won't say whether the deputy quit or whether the deputy was fired Sheriff
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cash said lucky was found dead in the backyard of his Handler's home on Sunday evening July 23
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2017. so almost a year ago lucky was reportedly tied up in the deputy's yard when he was found dead
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Sheriff cash provided additional details on the death of the dog saying Lucky's blood was found on his leg when he was
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found by his Handler reports on Lucky's cause of death vary however the initial necropsy performed by Arkansas livestock
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and poultry commission several days after lucky was found dead questions whether heat stroke or gunshot wounds
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were a factor in its death upon further examination the preliminary preliminary report concluded that lucky
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died of blunt force trauma but then two months later another necropsy was performed with inconclusive results the
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Arkansas livestock and poultry commission says it does not discuss the specifics of any of their cases so was
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it a gunshot wound you know did somebody shoot this dog was it blunt force trauma or was it heat
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stroke because the initial reports came out that it might have been heat stroke this dog was tied up and the Handler's
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backyard for the course of the weekend and we're talking about hot Arkansas summer July of last year we're talking
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95 96 97 degrees we had a weekend just this last weekend we were what 96 97 and it felt like it was about 105 out there
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you could cook an egg on my on my driveway yeah and this this canine Officer was left outside the Handler
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States just for that day however there are reports that have come out that said the dog was chained up in the backyard
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for the course of the weekend well now I'm no Fami Malik but I could tell you if I was in charge of this autopsy I
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could tell you whether or not the dog died from blunt force trauma or heat stroke well it it's a very sticky
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situation and what I mean by that is there's some thought that something happened to this dog the dog was
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murdered okay in my opinion you're not going to change my opinion on that regardless of whether it was heat stroke
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blunt force trauma or gunshot I think this dog was was killed now if it was heat stroke it might not have been
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intentional right um but the they have certain protocols and procedures for how these animals
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these canine Officer is to be handled right and these were not they did not adhere to these uh protocols so let's
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let's get into this a little bit because the sheriff said that the Handler had his mother feed the dog in the morning
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and give the dog water when the Handler got back home this is about five hours later lucky who had been with the
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department since September of 2015 was dead the dog was quote the dog was fine at 1 30 PM said Sheriff cash he was
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running and playing Sheriff cash said the Handler saw lucky earlier that day the Handler this is Officer Michael
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Morgan apparently was gone for most of the day then then the sheriff seems to believe that the blunt force trauma
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findings over over the heat stroke findings so what I mean by that is Sheriff cash
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who runs this Sheriff's Department right he's he's the head honcho he's the guy that's supposed to be in charge here the
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Big Chief he's the guy that's supposed to give a [ __ ] about officer lucky more
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than anybody else and what what he is saying is he seems to believe that the blunt force trauma
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findings are what is more accurate we can't get we can't get positive information on how this dog died in the
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beginning here what and why we know that he thinks that it was blunt force trauma was because
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his own word sheriff Cash's words are look this dog suffered blunt force trauma that's the cause of its death and
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he was chained up at the time when this trauma would have occurred because his statements are typically with blunt
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force trauma being the cause of death of an animal it's from being hit by a car you know it wanders out into the street
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or tries to cross the street in a car hits the animal right this this dog could not have been hit by
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a vehicle if it's chained up in the backyard somebody attacked this dog in my opinion
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now Sheriff cashes words these this is his words Lucky had food in water he also had his dog house a tree for shade
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and a hanging tarp so the initial theory was that this death was heat related in spite of the
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presence of shade and water but testing like we said eventually concluded that heat was not a factor what is strange
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here though is we still have these rumors of the dog being shot and then later being told that it was
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blunt force trauma that killed officer lucky well it seems like the first findings weren't conclusive and then the
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second findings of the autopsy they're not even sharing with us yeah and here's here's my guess
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you know it even though Sheriff cash seems to be spending little time effort and resources on this case he must
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somewhere in his heart believe this is a murder because whether or not he is aware of his choice of words when he
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he's been cornered a few times and asked to give some explanation as to what has
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happened and he sits down very calm at his desk and he he answers the questions and he he shies away from some questions
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um but he's using words like he's used words like suspects and Alibi saying Lucky's Handler Michael Morgan has an
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alibi as he was reportedly with people when they believe this trauma occurred stating that Michael Morgan has receipts
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for purchases from about the time to verify his whereabouts and here we go where cash says quote there are no
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suspects and share in the sheriff's office is still trying to find out who all is involved going as far to ask
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anyone with information to call the hot spring County Sheriff's Office at 501-337-7738 yeah I I think if you got
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information I would call somebody else because I've been following this thing and Sheriff cash does not seem overly
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concerned with solving this crime this murder this is the murder of an officer of a fellow officer in his Department
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under Sheriff Cash's watch and from my perspective Sheriff cash carries himself like he's got far too more important
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items on his to-do list to spend the time and effort to get Justice for one of his officers for canine Officer lucky
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who served the hot spring County Sheriff's Office and that community and really the thing that I think that
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sheriff cash fails to understand here is it look man you're in it you are an elected official
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all right now I'm sure he understands that well I I'm sure he understands that but he doesn't understand this next next
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part he has an opportunity to be a good leader and that he is not he has an opportunity to show his
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officers that look under my watch you will be protected this department will have your back
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and guess what this this canine Officer lucky is killed and he doesn't seem to be spending any
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time to get Justice for that life for the community and here's the thing the only difference
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between officer lucky and the other officers on the sheriff's department was the fur no
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all those other officers the the men and women that are serving they signed up to
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be a sheriff they signed up signed up to be a deputy officer lucky was asked he was asked to be an officer
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right but he's a he's not really asked as much it's like we're just going to make you a officer right how can you
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really ask a dog to be an officer well they do they do they they when when these when an animal is taken to be uh
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an officer these dogs are sent through some hardcore training and some of the dogs do not pass the training
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so in a way you're almost asking the dog to to serve because it because officer lucky was smart enough and worked hard
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enough to learn the training to to pass the school to become become an officer all right so the Handler of Lucky has an
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alibi right and we think that is good enough again we don't know if this is blunt
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force trauma we don't know if there's a gunshot we don't know well I'm guessing there is no gunshot I'm
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guessing it is blunt force trauma and um I think if it was a gun shot we probably
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would have heard about that or at least had some eyewitness of hearing a gunshot
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in that area around that time yeah and and like you said is that good enough it sounds like it's good enough for Sheriff
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cash um I don't think it's good enough for the community because like I said he's
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been cornered and questioned about this ever since August of he kind of came under Fire for this around August of
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last year you know it took place Late July but it was I think September end of August where there started to be some
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questions about this autopsy that had taken place in in the actual cause of death for this canine Officer now go
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ahead well I was just going to say let's be clear the one of the reasons why this
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is important is if um a K-9 unit came into your house let's say you're drug dealer let's say you're
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you know selling the nose candy to the local neighborhood kids and here comes canine lucky into your house and you
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shot him and you killed him you're going to go away for a lot longer than if you just
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even killed a person that walked into your house this is an officer of the law so let's just be clear about that well
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and here's the thing I I believe you know with any officer we should hold them in higher regard as to the way they
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treat others but we also we also should hold them in high regard to how they are
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treated when they are working and on duty off duty I don't care if if something happens to an officer of the
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law I want to know why who and why and can we prosecute this person now Tony Smith he's the owner of the Little Rock
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Canine Academy he's the one that brought Lucky from overseas as a puppy and trained him to be a Narcotics uh
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detection tracking and protection dog so this so lucky had many jobs let's say and Tony Smith quote says it's always
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sad to hear of a law enforcement dog passing away in a premature death but this this is disheartening because he
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says that a good Handler class will teach how teach the Handler how to secure the dog properly at home
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and some of these measures including getting a dog boarded at a veterinarian office so
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let's go through this okay kind of back back to the beginning Sheriff Mike Cash took office January 1st 2017. okay
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at that time most of the deputies the active deputies of that Sheriff's Department were either fired or they
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quit when Mike Cash took over okay at the time they had two certified canine handlers
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both of these officers left the Sheriff's Department well when that sounds pretty fishy when
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the handlers left what happened was we still have two canine officers active canine officers we have lucky and we
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have panto okay now lucky was assigned to this former this now former deputy Michael Morgan he was a new hire at the
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time and he had never attended the Criminal Justice Academy nor did he have any canine experience at all so to be
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assigned a trained canine Officer to a Handler with no training in my opinion this is this is dangerous it's
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irresponsible right it's it's it's not a healthy situation for the community for
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the Handler or the dog or the canine Officer now former deputy Michael Morgan he kept
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lucky on a chain in his backyard with him having no training or no experience himself they're supposed to
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work with these dogs a certain number of hours a week just on like training exercises right and was he doing any of
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that I doubt it uh this officer went away for fair though you don't know I I don't know but
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it doesn't sound like he's being handled properly right from from an outsider looking in not to mention the
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weekend that the dog died Deputy Morgan went away for a weekend motorcycle trip to Oklahoma okay this is where I have a
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problem with Sheriff cash how come you're telling me that that the officer was there for portions of that
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day and we have other reports stating that the officer was out of town for the entire weekend which one is it and can
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you just come out and be clear about it right so he leaves the dog chained up in his
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backyard with his mother supposedly to tend to the dog now we have Sheriff Cash's word saying that there was water
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and food in the dog's bowls when when the when lucky was found dead who found the dog
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I it sounds to me like the Handler found the dog like he returned from his trip and then the dog is dead
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and here's the problem though there's other than Sheriff cash right all the other reports state that there was no
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water in the dog's bowl there was no food in the dog's bowl which may not mean anything and but but why do why do
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we have a conflicting story yeah but I don't know I I it wouldn't be too much maybe the Handler sees the dog
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sees that it's dead calls it in starts cleaning up the dog stuff I don't know well and here's the other thing I don't
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know about this specific location about this specific area but most police departments usually have protocols in
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place for a canine when the Handler is away most require the canine to be boarded at an approved facility or stay
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with another Handler but they're giving it to a Handler that's not even a Handler right so the responsibility on
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this Handler's you know irresponsible in the first place so I'm just guessing if
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this is what they're dealing with they don't they don't have certain protocols that or they probably have them they
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just don't have the means to follow them well and to add to the confusion Deputy
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Morgan like we said now former deputy Morgan he has a somewhat colorful history himself including a order of the
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rainbow order of protection against him from one of his Ex-Wives he has a number of
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traffic violations and he is no longer with the sheriff's department because and this is I'm quoting an article here
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because I don't have the exact information in front of me because of an alleged criminal act for which no
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charges have been filed by the sheriff's department I don't know what that criminal act is or if it's even real
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because they didn't file any charges it is again it's alleged but not only not only is this guy not qualified to be
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ridiculous wait wait we think this guy did a crime so we're gonna fire him but we're not charging him with the crime
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well we don't know if they fired him the the Sheriff's Office I don't know I don't know what the crime
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is but the to but the thing too that's confusing is the sheriff's office will not even say
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exactly why he would this guy was let go yeah it might be for the murder of this
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dog well it but that's I mean you said it yourself it's alleged criminal activity
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it's alleged crime it could be that simple and I think that's when we first me and you first talked about this case
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I said now I want to throw the sheriff under the bus too much because this is a difficult situation to deal with and if
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he figured out that one of his officers the Handler that he put in charge of a dog but he
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knows that this Handler does not have the proper training for this dog that and then you find out that the
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Handler killed the dog well now once we got rid of him now Morgan's gone the problem is gone
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it's obviously not going to happen again and you know does he owe his um Community answers I think so I don't
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know if you're going to get them well here's the thing here's the problem for Sheriff cash he is going to have to
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go up for reelection at some point at the end of this year his term is over so he's going to have to ask the community
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to sign him up for the job once again how old is he though because he might be thinking that's true he might use the
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entire hey you know this is a little too much I mean you become sheriff and half
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the people quit or get fired I mean this is this doesn't sound like a department that's running on the up and
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up anyways okay man how do you have two canine uh handlers quit at the same time
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unless he's that much of a dick you know cockface well it sounds to me and I didn't know this it sounds to me that
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when a new sheriff there's a new sheriff in town when there's the new sheriff um the new sheriff in town that the
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deputies under the old regime can either stay on or or move to a different you know sheriff's office or relocate or
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whatever that they can stay on or the sheriff can determine who they keep on it's almost like a like a football coach
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in the NFL you know when new guy shows up some of the old guys are gone all of a sudden and that sounds to me like
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that's the situation here um at least that's how it's reported now here's another issue that I have
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with Sheriff Mike Cash when he's cornered when he's asked the tough questions about officer lucky
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he's he he then goes on to complain that you know our office my office has been flooded with with calls for almost a
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year about this situation right and he states that he believes that it's it's uh just these crazy animal lovers or
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he's stating that a lot of the heat is coming from people who support his opponent
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this is Woody Perry is going to be his opponent um which which look he's he's sitting
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down in front of a camera he has the opportunity to educate the community about what has happened to show the
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community that his department will stop at nothing to protect its officers instead he uses the time to complain
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about his his opponent in the upcoming election and then the other thing this is another
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thing that KATV has been all over this and I commend them I Pat them on the backs
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but um on the buttocks well listen to this Captain because this is super weird and I say
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I'm going to say so how did Kane the canine Officer die that is a good question we've been over
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it a little bit but this this is one thing that we've not covered yet KATV has they've seen the case File from the
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Sheriff's Office and here's what they've had to say in their reports that they had come across body cam audio
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not the actual video just the audio from a body camera on one of the officers this was and it captures hot spring
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County investigators talking to Officer Morgan the the Handler at his home upon learning of the dog's death on the
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recording an investigator can be heard saying to Morgan quote if we don't ask what is everyone going to say you're a
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policeman we are trying to find out what happened and that's all seems like Officer Morgan was a little
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dodgy about being asked tough questions about what could have happened to the dog
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and according to the case File investigators at the scene noted that Morgan left for the entire weekend this
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is from the case File according to KATV left for the weekend and left Lucky in the care of someone else records state
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that lucky was left leashed and tethered in the yard the case File also notes his
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food and water bowls both appeared to have been empty and empty for some time investigators also observed a
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significant amount of blood on Lucky's body along with a small hole behind his left ear
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on the body cam audio an investigator can be heard saying to Morgan quote I'm going to tell you and you don't tell
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anyone this part but lucky was shot Michael we aren't treating you like a suspect but the dog was shot and we need
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to know who done it end quote right so is this information that they can prove I mean they're saying that they're
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seeing this from a camera is this this camera information out there to the public or is this is what they're
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reporting it they're reporting that's what they've reported and they've they've reported that they've heard the
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audio that was on that body cam right and that's what the audio says now we're mind you we're only hearing pieces
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of that we're only getting told pieces of that it'd be interesting to hear the entire thing because if we're to believe
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what KATV is saying then it sounds like not only did Morgan Officer Morgan he may have killed the dog he may have
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murdered the dog or two that the investigator that showed up that was asking Morgan questions was
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kind of maybe on Morgan's side a little bit and it sounds like he it sounds like he's
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asking him tough questions but he's also saying hey look we're we're not saying you're a suspect uh I'm gonna tell you
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I'm going to tell you this you can't tell don't tell anyone but this dog was shot yeah and well they could have been
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friends you don't know well I mean I think the tough thing here is if he did Kill the dog if the
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Handler killed the dog hmm now the Handler's gone it doesn't work there anymore I don't know what the
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punishment would have been uh with lucky not being on duty but being off duty I don't know what the punishment would
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be and that's why I wonder if sheriff is just thinking this guy's gone he's not going to be a problem for me anymore and
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maybe legally he can't come out you just can't maybe they don't have definitive proof that he killed the dog but that's
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what they suspect but he's gone anyways but I can't then just go hey by the way the dog was killed oh really then who
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was he killed by I can't throw this guy under I can't say the guy's name and then people would give him [ __ ] for not
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saying the guy's name and then if he did say the guy's name and they don't have any proof guess what there's a lawsuit
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so I think they know what happened and I think their hands are tied probably on why they can why they can't release this
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information well the another guy weighed in on this giving his opinion and this is Academy trainer Jim McEwen and he
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says he he trained lucky to become a canine Officer he contacted KATV to say that the dog's death in his opinion was
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suspicious and saying quote this department was handling this case instead of having an outside agency come
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and invest and investigate the way that it should have been done and he goes on to say quote if they had done that there
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wouldn't be an issue right now right and I think he's exactly right and I I don't
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know standard procedure down there but I would believe that you would want an outside agency to come in and look at
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this case because a couple things could happen here if there was wrongdoing by anybody inside your department they
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could easily cover anything up now if you have an outside agency look at this then everybody after the fact can stand
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back and go look we understand why no charges were pressed we we understand that somebody came in and looked at this
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without bias came in there and looked at this without bias and made a ruling made a decision
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and decided that no charges could be pressed in this situation rather than handling it by yourself right letting
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the department take a look at it yourself now KATV so okay according to the case File
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this is more strange business according to the case file an investigator took photos at the scene where lucky died now
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KATV requested those photos but Sheriff cash said in a letter and in an interview as well that the photos did
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not exist stating quote I haven't got the pictures and they're not in the file back there
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I don't know if the investigator took them with his phone or what meaning his personal cell phone right he States the
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investigator no longer works here right but I I don't think again that to me that doesn't make the department
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look Shady or make the sheriff look Shady this is what happened and we had an investigation and I'm sure
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uh you know if look if this was a a murder scene which it should have just been treated like one right right but
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but it seems like this department is like well it's a dog so this is we're going to disinvestigate it differently
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yeah and I think that that's what I'm having an issue with and I think that's what so many other people have a big
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problem with is is exactly that what you just described it's if if Sheriff cash treated officer lucky like an officer
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this would have been handled much differently and instead his look is well it's just a dog
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it's just that's at least that's the that's what he's putting out there he's not stating that but that's what I kind
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of see the effort being made here yeah but he's the one that kind of I mean he could have just from the beginning just
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said hey dog died from heat exhaustion and this was an accident you know we're really sorry blah blah blah and hey by
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the way the Handler's gone so we don't have to deal with that anymore right he could have done that and that would have
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been treated as like it's just a dog but he did come out and say hey look I think
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there's something more to this it wasn't just heat exhaustion he then the one that says not only
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do I not think it's heat exhaustion but there was water and there was food he was the one that said that right again
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pointing away from the heat exhaustion I think it like I said before it's as simple to me as here's a guy that his
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hands are tied and he knows probably more than he wants to know and he and now he
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can't share that with with the public well if the canine trainer that we quoted earlier if he is correct
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in his statement stating that an outside agency should have been brought in if that's normal procedure
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if if he's correct in that statement then I think there is wrong doing here yeah but what's the relationship between
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the sheriff and the then the police officer the Handler you just I don't I don't know were they
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friends I don't know and and is that enough of a reason that the person would say okay yes this guy's
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maybe a little violent maybe a little a bit of an alcoholic or I don't know just speculating and I'm just saying is
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it possible that they have some kind of relationship and he didn't want to see the guys life get ruined because of a
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horrible um one horrible action well and like you said you did point out something very
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good there and it's it's obvious but it's good is the you can suspect all you want different
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things but what can you prove and what evidence do you have to to point the finger at somebody and tell you what
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what actually happened in this situation and who's to blame for it right and my point is is that if you have all these
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pieces they have more information than we have right yeah Sheriff has more information than we have and So based
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off that information that he has I think he knows who's responsible and that guy
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is gone and again you can't then give all the answers to the public because guess
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who's going to sue your ass because because you're making claims that you can't prove you didn't press
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charges you didn't do all these things and if you come out and say we think the Handler
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shot the dog we think he murdered this dog then if you can't prove that you got a
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lawsuit on your hands and and then guess who's not going to get re-elected anyways
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right I see I see what you're saying but the pro the the problem I have here is we have a case File that states that
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there were pictures taken of the crime scene right right well that's allegedly right no this this is according to KATV
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they're stating we've seen we were able to review the case File and in that case
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files where we found this body cam audio with the strange questions and the statement of the dog being shot
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and we also have somewhere in there it's written that there were photos taken at
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the at the scene so what here's where I have a big problem okay one an officers murdered
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two these the the case File is now incomplete we know it's incomplete because of several reasons it states at
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one time there were pictures of the crime scene they're not in that file anymore why not
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okay who do you hold responsible for that I hold Sheriff cash responsible for that it's his Department well I know he
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has an incomplete case File he has a Handler that was not trained to be a Handler doesn't even sound like the the
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guy was trained to be an officer of the law we who's no longer with the Department
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we have an investigator who supposedly investigated this murder of Officer lucky who's no longer with the
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Department I look I'm just saying if this thing was handled this poorly I wonder how they're handling other
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situations down there right you know what I mean you you hopefully they're not handling anything
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I don't I don't think that this suggests that there's some big huge major cover-up on Sheriff Cash's part
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what I what I think it's evidence of is his his lack of ability to be a good leader
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yeah but sometimes you're fighting a battle with your hands tied behind your back you show up half the people leave
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or get fired and now you have a situation that you have this guy that's under qualified to to handle a dog but
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you have to have somebody do it and then this guy ends up possibly being a giant
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huge piece of [ __ ] right and so now we got this dead dog now what do we do about it so now we have investigator and
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he investigates it where did he go we don't know if he got fired or if he quit we don't know where the pictures go we
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don't know right and so now you got all these questions that are being brought to you and you got all these you know
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[ __ ] dildo heads running you know helping you run this department and you have to answer for all these people you
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know yes that's your job to lead yes it's your job to try to get it together but I you know I don't want to throw
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this guy under the bus too hard because we don't know what he's working with well I I see what you're saying but but
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the results the results that we're getting are not good enough and he's the leader the results that
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we're getting at the end of the day okay but here okay I'm just gonna play Devil's Advocate if he knows what
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happened right 100 knows but he can't prove it then what do you want him to do um
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I would like I would like that that's a good enough explanation for me actually look we we think some wrongdoing
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happened here we can't prove anything well but he kind of said it I mean he he he basically told he could have went
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with the theory that the dog you know died from heat exhaustion right right he could have went with that theory he did
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not go with that theory he was you know pretty clear that hey something happened here
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and yeah now is he not answering the next question again I think possibly that could be
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because of a lawsuit I'm not saying to Tar and feather the guy I'm just saying that he was elected to do to perform a
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job as the sheriff of this entire department at the end of the day the results of of
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what's going on in the department and the results of how they're handling situations right they're not good enough
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they're not good enough for you to be the sheriff anymore is what I'm stating I I don't I'm not saying we need to
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prosecute this guy and and send them to send him off to jail forever and and throw away the key I'm just saying the
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job that he asked the community to do to hey elect me to hold this position um oh and by the way an officer will
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ends up dead and regardless of what happened we have an incomplete case File we have two
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officers that are no longer with the Department we have people people being canine
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officers handlers that are not not trained to do so right and like I said it doesn't have it has
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more to do with what else is going on down there if this if this was handled this poorly what how else are they
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handling things and like you said it's it appears to me like this dude took over I'm the new
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sheriff and I'm just gonna mail it in for a couple years and hopefully I get reelected but it doesn't work that way
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Sheriff cash it doesn't work that way you either do a good job or you don't and if you don't you're out right but I
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don't live there I don't know what he's doing on a day-to-day basis I don't know
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uh what the community feels about his work ethic or what he's doing in their community and I don't know if this is
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just a black eye on that or if this is the norm foreign [Music] I appreciate you sitting down with me
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and discussing the case of Officer lucky I hope that they find Justice for officer lucky at some point and maybe by
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us getting together today keeps this case alive keeps the story alive and we can finally get answers that the
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community deserves officer lucky deserved a officer's send-off and officer's funeral which I reviewed that
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and it was lackluster he didn't receive the proper send-off in my opinion so if you live in that area get involved call
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somebody keep this case alive we wanted to present this because technically we were supposed to be off this week
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Captain right um it's a beautiful holiday week hey wait was I supposed to be recording happy Fourth of July to
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everybody I hope everybody has a safe and happy Fourth of July but we wanted to make sure that we brought this case
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up and kept it alive now I think we should leave on a happy note today and point out just how important these
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canine officers such as officer lucky are and this is from Hancock County and Mississippi so a Hancock County
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Mississippi sheriff's deputy this is Todd Frazier is alive today because of his canine partner who was free to save
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his life as three men were about to murder him the deputy spots this is how the story goes down the deputy spots a
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lone male sitting behind the wheel and a parked car near a rest stop as he investigates the situation two men
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approach and begin to talk to him as the men distract Deputy Frazier the driver of the car gets out and the three men
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then Ambush the deputy they tell Frasier that he is going to die that they are going to slit his throat as the three
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men begin to drag the officer toward the nearby Woods to carry out their heinous
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plan Frazier is able to free his hand he hits a button that automatically opens the door to his vehicle where his canine
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partner Lucas is witnessing the crime through the window without hesitation Lucas jumps into action charges the
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three men biting them and successfully aborts the attack on the officer's life and for everybody that's wondering yes
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I'm signing Frank up to try to be a canine Officer and I hope everybody has a good Fourth of July and we will see
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everybody back here in the garage next week until then be good be kind and don't litter
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[Music] thank you [Music]