I agree with you. And as another said they should not be used to attack, but for the reason, no one should be attacked by a dog.
I do not want to see any animal of person to get hurt, but all these feels for the poor dog, hang the guy attitude - come on - it is just a dog, get real.
I am conflicted by this. I am all for using dogs in warfare. They serve an invaluable purpose. They are there to kill and maim, or be killed and maimed, so the rules are relatively clear. When a dog goes willingly into a tunnel to look for the enemy and a human doesn’t have to, I fully support that and hope the best for the dog.
When I see these 6 AM raids on houses by SWAT teams to arrest someone who is a political opponent (as we have seen frequently in the last three years) I am less sanguine about these people using dogs against the citizenry.
But I will say this: I know an animal is an animal and a human is a human, and many say an animal should never take precedence over a human, but I can think of people I have seen in my life on this Earth who, if they were drowning in a river and I had a choice between saving them or saving the animal, I would save the animal hands down.
There are people on this earth who act like animals, and as such, are no better than animals.
After considerable effort and expense, this dog is a highly trained member of a police force, and the perp would not have been bitten if he was not resisting arrest.