The Mass State Police Okay-9 that was shot and killed at a standoff final month is being honored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA on its Tree of Life memorial is dedicating a leaf to heroic canine Frankie, the primary MSP canine to be killed within the line of responsibility.
Frankie, a 10-year-old Belgian Malinois, was fatally shot whereas attempting to apprehend a needed fugitive who had barricaded himself inside a Fitchburg residence. Frankie was a extremely embellished member of the Mass State Police for 9 years.
“More than once in his nine impressive years of helping to safeguard the community, Frankie protected his fellow officers as well,” mentioned PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA encourages everyone to recognize all dogs as the heroes they are when given a chance and to honor them with the respect and kindness Frankie rightly received.”
PETA’s Tree of Life memorial is positioned in its Norfolk, Va., headquarters. The inscription for Frankie’s leaf reads on two traces:
“IN LOVING MEMORY OF FRANKIE
COURAGEOUS AND LOVED”
“PETA — whose motto reads, in part, that ‘animals are not ours to abuse in any way’ and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview — honored another K-9, Koki, with a leaf on its Tree of Life in 2019,” PETA mentioned in an announcement. “The memorial is dedicated to individuals of all species whose lives and actions made a difference.”
Frankie’s handler, Trooper David Stucenski, was not bodily injured throughout the standoff final month.
The fugitive suspect — Matthew Mack, 38 — later died after apparently capturing himself contained in the three-story, multi-family home at 40 Oliver St.
Mack was needed on warrants charging him with firearms offenses and accent after the very fact stemming from a earlier capturing incident in Fitchburg.
After Mack shot Frankie, troopers picked up Frankie and evacuated him from the scene to an ambulance. He was transported to Wachusett Animal Hospital in Westminster, the place he was pronounced lifeless. The ambulance transport was the primary occasion of such emergency care made doable by Nero’s Law.
In 2017, Frankie and Stucenski had been awarded the Medal of Valor on the state’s annual George L. Hanna Awards for Bravery, the state’s prime regulation enforcement award ceremony.
The month earlier than Frankie died, MSP honored Stucenski and Frankie and different members of the Special Tactical Operations Team for apprehending an armed little one pornography suspect who had opened fireplace on them after they went to arrest him at a West Springfield motel in 2019.
PETA mentioned in an announcement, “PETA has worked with police departments since its inception, endorsing positive-enforcement training, advocating for the adoption of police dogs from shelters, and advising on home keeping and care for K-9s.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”