Hazel Crest Police Officer Shoots Dog on Fenced In Private Property on Christmas Eve

When Chanette Weaver put her dog Kobi in their fenced-in yard to use the bathroom Christmas Eve night, it would be for the last time. Two Hazel Crest police officers soon showed up at her door to alert her Kobi was dead.

CBS2 reports:


“One of the officers said, ‘Ma’am, your dog is dead.’ Heartless,” Weaver said.

“He said, ‘Ma’am, your dog was getting ready to attack one of my officers.’ And they shot him three times,” Weaver said.

Hazel Crest police said the dog tried to attack officers on a public sidewalk, and officers felt they were at risk of serious injury.


Weaver said Kobi was in obedience training all the time, and it was very unlikely he would have attacked the officers.

Neighbors said police fired first, and asked questions later about Conley, who officers apparently thought was hiding at a house next door to the Weavers.

“I was like, ‘No we don’t. You all can come into the house and check,’” neighbor Dionne Williams said.

So we have a dog who was minding its own business in the backyard, which was fenced up and considered private property, and we have some cops who claim the dog, which had also gone through obedience school, who came onto this private property and shot the dog, who claimed the dog was trying to attack the officers who Weaver said opened her fence and let the dog out.

Do the Weaver's have no private property rights? Can the police just come onto her property at will, open their fence where the family dog was minding its own business, and begin shooting without without considering the rights of the Weaver family? After all, it appears the lack of respect for the private property of the Weaver family is the reason Kobi is dead.