The fact remains that the video does not document any aggressive behavior from the lab. Even if the lab did growl, a growling, but not advancing lab is not a de facto deadly threat.
It is well documented that corrupt cops have shot dogs and claimed to be threatened by them afterward, even when non-cop, non-owner witnesses to the shootings acknowledged that the dog in question was not showing aggression or otherwise threatening the cop.
However, aggressive behavior from the SWAT team was documented.
The lab in this video did not *have* to be shot. The SWAT team members had other options.
Those options were deliberately not attempted or exercised.
We have a military. I support them doing their job of killing people and breaking things. If members of SWAT teams want to kill people and break things, they should sign up there.
Police are not the military; they are people who have taken up an oath to protect and serve, operating by the principles Robert Peel established for the modern police force.
When the police become a standing army unto themselves, then we have created what the Founders warned against.
“When the police become a standing army unto themselves, then we have created what the Founders warned against”.
I fear its already too late.