It seems reasonable enough to me, but I believe officer training teaches them to not surrender physical space. So we may be expecting him to go against his training. Unfortunately, it seems they do not get training in “dog behavior” and this business of every barking dog is a threat gets tiresome.
That’s part of the training, cops don’t back down, even when it would be the best thing to do. They’d rather kill a citizen then lose some of their aw-thor-a-tay.
They are trained to retreat from a suspect with a knife, if they can, before shooting.
What’s ridiculous is their standard for shooting dogs—if they “feel” threatened, whether or not they are, they can. (Kinda like someone who “feels” offended by whatever someone else has said.)
That essentially means it’s open season on dogs.