I’d happily off anyone who threatened my dog or cat.
Right there with you. Member of the family.
In Washington state, animal cruelty is a felony.
Reasonable force can be used to stop a felony in Washington state against you or anyone else.
Tormenting a pet with a small stick probably will not require deadly force to stop the attack. A verbal command, calling the police or similar would probably do the trick.
A guy not responding to reasonable verbal orders and then scrambling to pull a gun and then displaying the gun in a threatening manner would meet my conditions of using my own gun to stop the threat. Regardless if there was an animal present or not.
I guess that the cameras are much slower than what the cop sees, but I didn’t have a clear view or a clean shot until the cop shot. Rewatching it, maybe one second earlier.
I was surprised the number of shots with the cops in a circle presenting a bad backdrop. But the second camera seems to show them all pointing their guns down and point blank at the criminal so pretty safe I guess.