I’m from a small town in the mid-west and I trust and support law enforcement here totally. They are not perfect, but none of us are. They try to be professional and they do a good job of it as well.
Let’s not tar all law enforcement because of this officer’s actions.
For example, what if the chain was of an unknown length and the dog charged the officer? If the officer did not know the zone of danger, what should she do, since the dog could out run her in all likelihood? Even if the dog started out thirty feet away, which would be consistent with the story told, it could still have made the officer feel threatened.
I think we need to hear the other side of the story.
“I’m from a small town in the mid-west and I trust and support law enforcement here totally. They are not perfect, but none of us are. They try to be professional and they do a good job of it as well.”
Look...a person with a loaded gun who is afraid of a chained dog 30 feet away is simply in the wrong line of work. I don’t care if they are in the ‘hood or in Mayberry RFD.
I see a lot of people every week (”urban outdoorsmen”) who I think are “scary” - and I’ll be a lot of other people do, too. Do you think that someone should shoot them before they do something? And they aren’t even chained up!