No, he committed several illegal acts:
1) Entering the private citizen’s *back yard*, ergo intruding on her property.
2) Abusing the private citizen’s animal.
Neither of which fall under “stupidity”, and neither of which should be defended by someone who desires others to draw distinctions.
Doc has a point.
If the little jack-booted, yellow-bellied, glob of maggot vomit had to pay for all of this _out of his own pocket_, I bet he’d think thrice about zapping another dog.
And so would his cronies.
Not willing to argue the merits of his actions, just trying to point back to my original post ... condemning all police because of a few idiots (in a group consisting of over 800K members) is just wrong and all I’m trying to say. Yet many here are more than willing to do so. That’s what I find sad.