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Clearly it has become a national, unofficial policy to kill dogs when possible. Even when dogs have been put into a bathroom, the police will open the door to the bathroom, shoot the dog, then claim to have felt threatened by it.

I suspect that if a dog was put in a kennel, they would say they needed to search the kennel, open the door to let the dog out and shoot it, or just shoot it in the kennel.

The logic of doing this is convoluted at best, but amounts to local courts and laws agreeing that *any* dog is worth only $300 or less, and that if police have *any* justification for shooting a dog, whether or not it is a reasonable justification, it is acceptable, as dogs are *property*, and property has no rights, so no money in exchange for the dog’s life.

There is no legal recognition of trauma or psychological damage inflicted on children because of police terrorism of their family or killing of their dog.

However, over time this is building up enormous amounts of public anger at police. And this is a far greater threat to the police than any dog. At first, the public will eventually demand that police cease and desist, which they will refuse to do. Then they will demand that police be fired as individuals for such reckless endangerment and maliciousness.

"The logic of doing this is convoluted at best, but amounts to local courts and laws agreeing that *any* dog is worth only $300 or less..."

As far as Texas goes, that may no longer be the case, based on a law that's been on the books for a century or so, but was recently invoked in a civil suit...

Texas court says pet dog has sentimental value

I believe police are being encouraged to shoot dogs as a matter of course as practice for when they are given orders to shoot citizens for political reasons. Shooting dogs likely desensitizes them somewhat to shooting anything or anyone and gets them used to "feeling threatened" and reacting appropriately. Actually it seems that a dog or a person doesn't have to make any move or any sound for an officer to "feel threatened" even now. It will reach smaller cities then smaller towns soon enough. It is coming. The big city police now are being added into the TSA and ICE Civilian Defense Force that is President's super Praetorian Guard.

"The logic of doing this is convoluted at best, but amounts to local courts and laws agreeing that *any* dog is worth only $300 or less, and that if police have *any* justification for shooting a dog, whether or not it is a reasonable justification, it is acceptable, as dogs are *property*, and property has no rights, so no money in exchange for the dog’s life."

Yeah, and watch what happens when one of us 'civilians' shoots a police DOG (that they oh so cleverly call 'officers').

Wanna be military (but couldn't get in) punks!