Whatta 'bout the cop?
independent drug test for all LEO shootings.
Yeah, I love all those “qualifiers” that wind up being put at the end of stories like this, that of the dog being unlicensed. You know they would dearly love to have levied a fine for that. All these protocols,as we come to hear them over and over, bring the slowly dawning realization we’ve all now come to appreciate, whether it’s dogs or humans, about the wide berth the police enjoy when they make that decision that they’re “ in danger” and so are entitled to shoot. It should be a given that it’s in the nature of the job that a cop is ALWAYS potentially in danger, and that part of the professionalism of the job is knowing whether he’s in the kind of danger that implies he could lose HIS life, the same way the object of his armed agression, in this case a dog, could lose HIS. This by now is an epidemic, and you don’t have to be on the FR Puppy Ping list to know it. Some professional organization like the ASPCA SHOULD make a public statement bringing to the public’s attention that THIS HAS TO STOP! Either that, or advise ALL people that own dogs to NEVER call the Police for ANYTHING. Or if you must, IMMEDIATELY LOCK UP THE DOG. We should know by now what to expect. The police increasingly are there only for limited uses like traffic and safety control, NOT things involving human or animal life-forms.