I wonder what the distance was - sounds like it could have been quite a bit. These effing pussy cops just make me sick. “Feeling threatened” just doesn’t cut it unless at a very minimum the animal is so close that there will be no time to react if it really should attempt to attack.
I wonder what the ratio of armed citizens is to armed cops. I’ve read exactly one incident of someone with a CCW permit shooting a dog, and that I think was a pit bull. I do remember he was riding a bike on a bicycle path and the dog appeared about ready to take a bite out him.
That says a lot to me and makes me recall my cop friends with their ‘amusing’ nickname for the SWAT team. Puppy Killers.
“Feeling threatened” is the formula for using profitably the opportunity to shoot a dog or a person. Saying those words renders a shooting by police “justified” and “necessary” and “unavoidable.” Every home with a yard should keep a dog and the owner should learn o invest no emotion in the dog. The dog is there to give police something to shoot should they come to your house for any reason. They get to shoot some living creature for practice. The preferred creature is a dog but another will do in the absence of a canine.