Here we go again. You weren't there. You don't know what the dog did and automatically the officer should be fired? The default anti-cop position among some Freepers is sickening.
I'll admit we don't know the full story. But yes, police officers are held to a higher standard and dogs are held to a higher esteem. I will always question authority, but never question the love and devotion of a dog.
This same story happended to a friend of mine. He, his wife and son, and his dad were tending a fire in his back yard (in a 50 gallon burn barrel). A deputy sherriff stopped by to check it out. No one knew the deputy was there so as he came around the back of their house he surprised everyone. Their well trained german sheppard went to him to check him out, as any dog will do in its own yard. And the deputy shot him dead in front of everyone.
The woman made a mistake and it sounded as though she had done her part to fix her mistake. And it sounds like a gun toting lunatic with a badge killed her pet as a result. Let that be a lesson to her.