you can’t expect perfection from storm troopers whose specialty is killing dangerous cocker spaniels.
My neighbor and I share an outdoor stairway. My neighbor had called the cops because an unattended 5 year old was wandering the apartment complex.
For some strange reason, I had chosen the same moment to take Lynn-Dah-The-Dawg (a black female lab) out for her walk. As I started down the stairs, an officer in FULL RIOT GEAR was coming up!
Then the strangest thing happened...I placed myself between the cop and my dog and boldly asked, “May I help you?”
“”Other Apartment” he grumbled, and I let him pass.
He might have shot me, and probably would have gotten away with it.