[socialismisinsidious]

So then...you would argue that someone will defend themselves, instinctively, against a dog attack, but that an officer who just saw a suspect fire a gun in his/her direction should....what? Stand down and know that he isn't next?!

The dog is irrelevant. The suspect (who the cops were called to look for b/c of gun fire in the area) pulled a gun out after the police told him to raise his freaking hands. Raise your freaking hands and we can talk....pull out a gun and you are going to be shot. duh.

[HamiltonJay]

That is not remotely what witnesses have reported to date.

The man had his hands in is pockets... they may have told him to show his hands, may not, I don’t know.. but the gun was not pulled until the dog was set upon him, and as of yet no report has been made that the man threatened any human with the gun after it was pulled, only that he shot a dog that was set upon him.

If police believed this guy was the suspect and armed, I’m sure at least one cop if not more had a gun pointed at him before the dog was released. To sick the dog on him, and force the escalation of the situation is questionable at best. Any reasonable person seeing a dog coming at them is going to likely defend themselves, survival instinct. To expect someone to just “take an attack” because some cop ordered it is insane.

I am not defending the suspect and saying he was in complete compliance with the officers, he may not have been, but by whats been reported so far, your argument seems inane.

I don’t care if you have 4 cops with guns pointing at you.. you send in a dog in attack mode, it is an unrealistic expectation that any human being should take the attack without defending themself. Survival instinct is what it is.

We’ll see what comes out of this, but what it sounds like so far is an investigation is in order, and it will be conducted.