This is a regional story which is drawing a lot of interest in the Frankfurt-Wiesbaden area. So, there was an event to unfold around the Frankfurt train station about two weeks ago.
It unfolds this way....there's this homeless migrant guy who goes and rents a flophouse hotel room for two nights with 80 Euro.
On the first evening....he gets doped-up (to the extreme) and drunk.
He meets two hookers in the same flophouse, and does some talking. Maybe he thought there could be some free sex provided, but this talk goes 'south' rather quickly. He's disgruntled and pulls a knife on the two hookers. They escape....calling the police.
Police arrive (Fed police unit, I should note)....around 1 AM in the morning. They decide to break down the door (I won't say if this was smart or ethical....it's just the way it unfolded). Upon the door open....the feds release their dog.
The migrant guy reaches for knife, and stabs the dog....in a pretty bad way. Dog is not dead, but he's had a lot of vet-care to survive. His police-dog days are probably ended at this point.
From the chaos of the moment....the dog all stabbed-up....the knife still a potential issue....a fed policeman fired a round, and killed the guy.
So all heck has broken out in Frankfurt over the way this was done, and there's talk now of a charge or two against the guy who fired the round. Manslaughter? Yeah....that's the most that you could probably charge the guy with.
The stress of the moment? Well...tie this into the dog business....1 AM, and the whole effort to control some drugged-up/drunk guy....whose German might not be that great.
What police will say over the junkie-quarter of Frankfurt is that the whole atmosphere has gotten out of control, and too many variables over what might happen in just one average night at a flop-house.
I won't defend the policeman....he should have had his taser out and kept the dog out of the situation entirely. The possibility that the drug would have prevented the taser being effective? Well....that's about a 75-percent chance, and in that ten seconds of non-effective nature....the cop could have been stabbed multiple times. Waiting for the idiot to emerge the next day and just take him down on the street? That would have been the better solution in the end. That's the one thing about junkies....they seem to wake up in the morning and have an immediate urge to 'boost-up'.
If you wonder why so many locals in Frankfurt are concerned over the junkie-quarter....this is a prime example of how things have become so screwed up.
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