People think I am being funny when I say I have 3 dogs for this purpose. Its their job to take one for the team so my wife or relatives don’t get it.
Even during highly charged police raids on houses guarded by aggressive dogs, it’s hard to see how shooting them is the best option. A grazing shot will only make the dog angrier. A miss imperils other officers and innocent bystanders.
During a terribly tragic drug raid in Lima, Ohio, last year, an officer shot and killed the suspect’s two pit bulls shortly after the drug team entered the house. Another officer mistook the shots for hostile fire, and sprayed bullets into a bedroom, where a 26-year-old unarmed woman named Tarika Wilson had dropped to her knees, as ordered, while holding her 1-year-old son. Wilson died, the infant lost a hand.
. It is always an "accident" or "inadvertent" if there is no opportunity to drop a spare weapon or baggie by the person shot. Why did not the officer merely say he "feat threatened?" That formula statement seems to justify a cop shooting anyone at all who is not a prominent liberal politician.