[gridlock]

When the police are trying to control a situation, isn't it kind of SOP to shoot the dog?

If the police are concerned enought to have an entire family handcuffed and on the ground, they are not going to put up with a dog running around.

[matthew_the_brain]

I agree with you, lots of gangbangers and thugs have vicious dogs as back up weapons......the cop did the right think in killing that mongrel........I am getting so sick of these animal nut jobs anthropormophizing freakin animals.

[walkingdead]

"don't want to deal with a dog running around"

Then they should've SHUT THE FREAKING CAR DOOR! And as the tape shows they were asked to many times by the detainees.

[GovernmentShrinker]

So the officer who had his hand on the car door, looked inside, and said there's a dog in here, should have CLOSED THE D@MN DOOR. And that officer, who has not been named in the accounts I've read, was not the officer who shot the dog (but he's the officer who is responsible for the dog having been shot).

[Richard Kimball]

When the police are trying to control a situation, isn't it kind of SOP to shoot the dog?

Absolute and totally no, it is not standard operating procedure to shoot a dog. This is stupid and out of control.

That individual should not be a police officer. Because dogs have a far more capable sense of smell, they are more reactive to mace, pepper spray and fire extinguisher spray. There are numerous ways to stop a dog without killing it. As a fire fighter, I can guarantee you, encountering dogs in emergency situations is very common, and in twenty-three years of dog encounters, I never had to seriously harm one.

The police were also totally negligent in not closing the door to the car, as they put themselves in danger by not taking a simple precaution that would have prevented any injury to them or the dog. Any rookie knows that the best way to secure a dog is to keep it in an enclosed area. These police officers were so incompetent that they were incompetently discharging fire arms BECAUSE they incompetently didn't secure an animal when they should have. It's also not like, "Oh, I forgot." They were warned by individuals to shut the door so the dog wouldn't get out. It was stupid, and not securing the dog SHOULD be a violation of Department Standard Operating Procedures.

[SerpentDove]

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If the police are concerned enought to have an entire family handcuffed and on the ground, they are not going to put up with a dog running around.<<

If the police accuse a family of a crime which was never even committed, cuff them on the ground, and shoot their dog in front of their children, maybe it's time to think, "Something's wrong with this picture."

[chkoreff]

When the police are trying to control a situation, isn't it kind of SOP to shoot the dog?

If the police are concerned enought to have an entire family handcuffed and on the ground, they are not going to put up with a dog running around.

I was just up fixing supper and I saw that video on the Abram's report on MSNBC. That dog walked outta that car wagging his tail and playfully sidling up to the officer the way dogs do when they want to be a part of what the "humans" are doing -- and boy, they always do! It was really cute to see -- up until that part where the dog's head gets blown open like a melon from a shotgun blast.

Oh, but it's just a dog -- who cares, right? Wrong. I watched how those officers responded, and when I saw their positions and how they jolted into full response mode, it looked like "THE TRAINING" kicking in. The U.S. have thoroughly militarized their police force, and it shows.

Oh yeah, it's just a dog, and that Scott what's-his-name that got killed in his California home during a no-knock raid was just one guy, and that elderly black gentleman who died of a heart attack during a no-knock raid was just an old man, and Amadou Diallo shouldn't have pulled his wallet on those NY cops, and those folks in Waco were just ignorant wackos. It all doesn't mean a damn thing -- just scattered anecdotes among a sea of good solid Andy Griffith types, right? Wrong again. It is 100%, top-down, symptomatic. Hell, Illinois just let out four death row inmates who were tortured into confession -- that Leroy Orange guy got electric shocks to his balls and an electric rod up his ass. So yeah, everything's just hunky-freakin'-dory, Mr. Gridlock.