This is bull squeeze...
The police almost always USED to get the benefit of the doubt, but NO MORE!
Are you telling me an officer going to serve a civil paper warrant shouldn’t have a reasonable expectation that he may encounter a family pet? Should he also prepare himself with non-lethal repellant (pepper spay) just in case?
WTF? This officer is too STUPID to enforce the law but most especially to legally carry a firearm...
Charged my a$$... pets are becoming target practice...
“The police almost always USED to get the benefit of the doubt, but NO MORE!”
The police should never have gotten any benefit of the doubt *not typically afforded to any other individual, regardless of occupation*.
Period.
That is why we are where we are today.
I used to give LEOs the benefit of the doubt: they do a tough job, deal with difficult to dangerous people in all kinds of unpredictable environments. But there's been a change in the last few years: Cops don't act anymore like protectors of the citizenry, but as the enforcers of the state, and that's disturbing. And when coupled with the radical militarization of police forces around the country, the entire business is downright worrisome.