I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he with his adrenaline going during the chase saw a mean looking dog and got scared. Natural reaction but not acceptable. People allowed to be peace officers empowered with deadly force need to be cool under pressure or find a new job. I wonder if his trigger finger would have been so itchy if it was a 12 year old kid with a BB gun.
If he is as you describe he belongs on the other side of the bars.
This doesn’t sound like a fear based reaction.
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“He wasn’t running, he wasn’t growling, he wasn’t barking. He was not lunging,” says a witness who saw the shooting.
But neighbors and family say the dog didn’t threaten anyone–didn’t even leave the front yard.
“He just saw that dog, didn’t even look twice, went boom,” says the witness who didn’t want to be identified.
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That’s a cold, calculated decision, not a fear based response.