[nickcarraway]

Ping

[ansel12]

I wonder if citizens ever complained about the dog.

[RedHeeler]

Hijinks.

[Secret Agent Man]

Its a felony to shoot a police dog....

[Michael.SF.]

Very limited info from other sources as well.

My first inclination: K-9's are usually well trained, but the officer was not in uniform.

It will be interesting to see how this comes out.

[dennisw]

RIP there goes one highly trained 10-15 thousand dollar dog that was ten time more valuable to that police force than this affirmative action joke of a lady policeman. The only question is how overweight is she?

[Viking2002]

LOL Now cops are shooting their own dogs..........if we could only train the dogs to shoot back.

[Veggie Todd]

I’m not sure who to root for in this one.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I’m trusting the dog on this one. I hope there is a video of this incident. The odds of:

a) K-9 gets out of his enclosure
b) Decides to bite someone
c) Officer fires a shot at the dog

is most improbable. A Malinois will mess you up if it is going on the attack (think slightly smaller German Shepherd), so how was the officer able to get a single shot and seriously injure the K-9 without suffering serious injury himself?

[fortheDeclaration]

Gee, now the police are shooting their own dogs!

[familyop]

Nazi concentration camp guards who had used dogs to attack prisoners.

[Nifster]

Richmond is tough duty....man or dog

[ThunderSleeps]

Why was the dog left in a car, in Richmond, in late June. Sure, it was early morning but. I’ll bet the dog had been left before, knew it was going to get hot, and was in an aggressive mood.

[silverleaf]

He left the dog in a car? What a dumb thing to do . Even at 7 am summer temps are high enough to create a death chamber for a dog. I wonder if the animal was frenzied by heat or fear?

[TalonDJ]

He left his dog in the car to just run in briefly? If we do that we get our windows knocked out by overzealous morons.

[4yearlurker]

Did the cop arrest himself after shooting the K-9 dog?

[the OlLine Rebel]

“54-year history of using police dogs – more than half of that time with the Belgian Malinois breed”

Nonsense. BelMals were virtually unknown even 20 years ago.

[GingisK]

He needs to be charged for killing a police officer, just like they would a citizen.

[Altariel]

So if John Q. Public did the same thing, the police would be outraged and pontificating over “officer safety”.

But when they shoot their own dog, it’s apparently no longer an “officer”.

The hierarchy is clearly:

The State > Police > Police Dogs > Ordinary Citizens > Ordinary Citizens’ Dogs