[nickcarraway]

Video at the site.

[grobdriver]

Michael Mays of the Minneapolis Police Department

Do all the cops in Minneapolis have itchy trigger fingers?

[Lurker]

Anyone, and I do mean anyone, who harms one of my dogs is a dead person walking. The only open questions are when, where, and how it happens.

P

[Sans-Culotte]

"Are you jittery? Constantly in fear for you life? Do you prefer to shoot first and ask questions later? Does the sight of a tail-wagging dog or a woman in pajamas paralyze you with fear? If you answered 'yes' to all these questions, a career may be waiting for you with the Minneapolis Police Dept!"

[redgolum]

Standard procedure. Another reason why many are not trusting police.

[MrEdd]

There was a time in America when police academies wouldn’t graduate simmering candidates who were too delicate and scared to take a dog bite on the job.

Standards and honor mattered back then so there were no metrosexual sissies on the force to defend the wimps we see doing this crap.

[Ancesthntr]

Why does it seem like the first instinct of anyone in law enforcement is to shoot someone’s dog? Hell, some psychotic, uniformed bastard even shoot a dog that was LOCKED IN A CAGE!

I will tell anyone and everyone that I will just about automatically vote to acquit anyone charged with a crime if the cops shot their dog - because that tells me that the cops in question were NOT doing their job - which raises a sincere doubt in my mind as to what else about that case might be fishy.

Now, maybe if some states passed laws that required any cop who unjustifiably shoots a dog to PERSONALLY reimburse the owner - whether a criminal or not - $10,000 if the dog lives, and $25,000 if the dog dies, then we’d see less dogs shot. Oh, and they’d have to prove that the shooting was justified, via a uniform camera...no solid blue wall of silence or justification.

Don’t get me wrong, I do support police and policing in general. We need laws to be enforced, and brave/decent people to do that enforcing. I’m just ticked off at the scumbags who shoot dogs first and without any particular reason, as they are the antithesis of good cops.

[matthew fuller]

My nomination for all-time AH, from Danville, VA: (Murderer of a 11 pound MINIATURE Dachshund!)

http://www.theknightshift.com/2009/06/this-is-danville-police-department.html

[piytar]

The bodycam was not “turned off,” “malfunctioning,” or just plain erased? I’m shocked. /sadly no sarc

[Uncle Sam 911]

Those darn Minneapolis cops, they just love to shoot. People, dogs, whatever happens to be in front of them. Did this cop hear a “startling” noise before he started blasting away? At least there was not another cop there to have his nose nearly shot off.

[JKOWBELLE]

Bastard! I liked to shoot him!!!!!!!!!!!