[lesser_satan]

Everybody knows St. Bernards are vicious, bloodthirsty killers. I'm sure these cops were just acting in self defense. /sarc

I'm surprised they didn't shoot the kid as well. After all, it sounds like she was running in their general direction.

[Xenophon450]

After seeing Beethoven I didn't sleep for a week and had to use caffiene pills to escape the horrible abyss of my nightmares. True Fax. /s

[muawiyah]

Just noting that the football player shot on Poway was Foley (of the Sandygo Chargers) and the cop who shot him was named Aaron Mansker.

Turned out in court this guy was in plain clothes, outside his jurisdiction, in a POV, and didn't show his badge.

He managed to wound Foley sufficiently to keep him out of the 2006 football season.

It's sure going to be interesting to see what the personal relationship between the shooter in this case is with that young lady. Did she turn him down? Is she scheduled to be a witness in court? There's gotta' be much more to it than these guys just wandering down the street "investigating" and then shooting a dog in its own yard.

[sine_nomine]

A Mesa, Arizona cop shot a mother to death with a child sitting in the car.

St. Bernard - they can jump on someone and slobber until the victim is ready to puke - but they are otherwise harmless.