Because they’re cowards and they’ve learned they can get away with it.
Cops arrive stressed and the dogs sense that stress and bark protectively.
Waaaayyyy too many cops shoot just to shut the dog up, when it’s quite clear there is no threat.
Look at the number of stories where the dog was either retreating or confined.
Waaaayyyy too many cops shoot just to shut the dog up, when it’s quite clear there is no threat.
Look at the number of stories where the dog was either retreating or confined.
“Willy Pete”
“The West Virginia incident happened June 24 in a rural area of Mason County. A paramilitary unit scoured the woods bordering the property of 32-year-old Ginger Sweat. Her dog, a 6-year-old beagle-basset hound named Willy Pete, woke up from an afternoon snooze on his porch to the sound of eight officers coming out of the adjacent woods. Willy Pete scampered off to investigate. Sweat, who was putting one of her two young children down for a nap, looked out the window and saw an officer with a police dog on a leash emerge from the woods and ran out outside pleading with the officers not to shoot her dog, begging them to let her bring it inside.”
The officer shot once, missing Willy Pete but sending the dog, which had arthritis in its back legs, running back toward Sweat, she told the Charleston Daily Mail. Three more shots were fired in the dog’s direction, toward Sweat and the home where her two children were sleeping, Sweat told the local newspaper. Willy Pete was hit three times and fell dead in a pool of blood behind her mobile home.”