“you are okay with cops chasing down fleeing dogs, trying to get away from them, and pumping multiple shots into them until they are dead?”
No, and I never said that. If the cops shot down fleeing dogs that were no threat to them, they should face animal abuse charges, just like you or I would.
There are three basic possible scenarios, here:
1. The guy is an innocent fellow minding his own business, the cops bust in and shoot his fleeing dogs. 100% cop’s fault.
2. The guy is a pot grower who keeps his dogs around to keep him safer from raids and rival dealers. The cops overzealously shoot his dogs when they shouldn’t. The owner and the cops bear responsibility, here.
3. The guy is a pot grower and the cops didn’t behave at all as alleged. The owner is now 100% responsible. He used his dogs to save his own criminal skin and I have no respect for that.
Given this is becoming an all to standard way of amped-up, swat teams of dealing with anyone’s dogs they happen to see, anywhere, and given it was a hyped up swat team playing military, I tend to believe the neighbors and witnesses accounts. They could easily have been lying but pictures taken of the dead body of a dog outside in a locked fenced in cage proves that dog was not a threat to any of the swat team. they shot the first dog outside, and made a decision they were going to eliminate any other dog they found anywhere else.
And further SWAT was never sold to people to go after ONE FREAKING person. They were to be used against hardened drug houses and gangs. That was the excuse/explanation for the armor and firepower and tougher tactics. Not for one freaking guy living in a regular apartment, who MAY or MAY NOT - by your own admission - be doing something with pot.