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Palmer was patrolling the area Sunday when he noticed several large dogs running around and told the Richards, Mauricio to stay together:
owner, Tammie Kern, to get them under control, WKYC previously reported . ‘They’re both so hot’

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While Kern’s daughter was attempting to round up the four dogs, Dixie got away and playfully ran toward
Palmer, who shot her several times.

The shocking incident was caught on the officer’s bodycam. Video

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retriever playfully runs up to him. The officer sticks his hand out to wave the animal away.

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While Kern’s daughter was attempting to round up the four dogs, Dixie got away and playfully ran toward Palmer, who
shot her several times.
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Dixie scrambled to get away before her front legs gave out, and she fell face-first in the middle of the
street. The young dog managed to get herself to safety by dragging her back legs across the ground until
she reached the curb, where she helplessly lay half on the sidewalk.

“You stupid, f–k, you killed my dog,” Kern could be heard telling the officer. “Why did you do it?”

“Get back, OK. Your dog charged me, get back,” an annoyed-sounding Palmer ordered.

“That dog was harmless!” Kern screamed as she stood next to where Dixie lay dying.

Palmer called for backup as more people poured out of the home, demanding to know what happened to
the dog, the footage showed.

“She wasn’t even going at you, she was going across the street,” Kern screamed.”I hope you lose your f–king job.”
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At one point, Kern can be heard screaming in grief on the ground while another person tries to comfort her
as a helpless Dixie lay a few feet away.

“She wasn’t even going at you, she was going across the street,” Kern screamed.”I hope you lose your f–
job.”

Kern told WKYC that after the initial shot was fired, Palmer “should have just let it go and let us get the
dog and take her where she needed to be treated.

”But he didn’t do that. She was crawling — useless, helpless — in the street. He continued shooting her.
She was trying to come to safety, and he just kept shooting her three more times after the first time.”

Kern said Palmer should “lose his job.”

“He should go to jail. He should rot. I don’t want him to shoot somebody else. He needs to be off the
streets. There were innocent bystanders nearby,” she said.

Since the tragic shooting, local communities have come forward to demand Palmer be released from his
duties and fired from the department.

A MoveOn.org petition and the hashtag #JusticeforDixie have taken off in support of the family.
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A MoveOn.org petition and the hashtag #JusticeforDixie have taken off in support of the family, with the
petition saying: “The dog was not aggressive nor was she doing anything to warrant such a horrendous
act of violence. This is not the type of policing our city needs nor wants. We demand answers and
resolution and justice for Dixie and her family.”

Others took to social media to brand Palmer a “coward” and demand his badge be taken away, while
others bashed him for reportedly saying he was afraid when Dixie came toward him.

“Claims he was afraid for his life! But had his hand out calling the first dog to him, then poor Dixie probably
thought: ‘Oh hey, this is a nice guy, I’m gonna go say hi.’ Poor baby had no clue she was gonna be shot
dead,’ Kristine Duffin wrote in a Lorain, Ohio, Facebook group.

The Lorain Police Department released a statement on Monday, confirming Palmer had “used force” on
Dixie and said the incident was under investigation.

“While all the facts are not yet known, the investigation has been assigned to the Lorain Police
Department’s Office of Professional Standards to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances
that led to the use of force,” the statement read.

Kern and her family plan on filing a lawsuit against the police department, WKYC reported.

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