This spaz cop should get the Barney Fife treatment from his commanding officer: make him ask permission to load one bullet in his gun.
Yes, them Goldens are vicious. Hundreds of people are licked to death annually.
Friggin idiot.
Maybe they could deal drugs or something more suitable to their intelligence level.
How awful for this family.
The cop is a coward...
A golden!!! He should be laughed off the police force.
Why are cops allowed to shoot seemingly anything that moves with no penalties?
“The officer ordered the dog to stop and when it didn’t, the officer shot and killed the animal in its yard, Daniel said.”
Did the officer expect the dog to have an understanding of the English language? This is bad as the Seattle PD officer who murdered the Native American woodcarver.
Comply or die, baby! is the name of the game these day.
The officer made a mistake because he missed details. The dog wasn’t on a leash, but it was contained within an invisible fence system. An alert officer would have noticed a control collar on the pet before opening fire.
A resident called police to report that someone was selling meat from the back of a white pickup truck, King said.
ordered to stop? This "officer" was not speaking retrievereze. The proper way to address a golden is with a dog biscuit. Sheesh... this pup was probably wagging the whole time, hoping upon hope that the officer would pet him or her on the head.
Those in law enforcement seem really scared and paranoid nowadays...
A Golden Retriever?
Unbelievable...
“The officer ordered the dog to stop and when it didn’t, the officer shot and killed...”
So...they can shoot to kill if you don’t follow their orders? Wish that went for illegals that don’t understand their orders, either.
The gun shot probably spooked the suspicious person, but the cop got to shoot a dog. Dog shooting has become a sport among police officers, and as the quality of police recruits continues to decline, this nonsense will get worse.
This is getting as common as “Dog Bites Man.”
I am waiting for articles on “Dog Shoots Trigger-happy Cop.”
I’ve never met a barking Golden that wants to do anything other than sniff you, then lick you unless you were hurting a family member.
I would be devastated if our Golden was killed by some idiot cop in his own yard. She would do exactly what this dog did, bark and run towards them announcing to the world someone strange was in her yard.
This cop needs to be cleaning puke out of the drunk tank for the rest of his career IMHO.
Like he's a member of the pack. /s
Sue him and the dept. They obviously need some sensitivity training.
Did he (the LEO) yell STOP in dog talk? If it had been a non-English speaking person, wouldn’t he be required to yell STOP in their own language?
But when "Boomer" started barking and running toward a police officer Saturday morning, the officer shot the dog and killed it, Lawrene King told the AJC Sunday night.
The police officer is faced with what looks like an attacking dog.
“He’s a golden retriever," King said. "He barks, but he’s never bitten anyone.”
And the police officer knew this how? Is he supposed to be a dog mind reader? The dog acts as though it is going to attack the officer, but via some unknow telepathic ability the officer is supposed to read the dog's mind and determine that the dog doesn't bite, but only acts like it is going to bite.
All this could have been avoided if the owner had kept their dog under control.
Golden Retrievers weight from 65-75 pounds, about what a Germand Sheppard weighs. They are plenty big enough to do serious damage if they become aggresive. A police officer has no obligation to put themseves at risk (of any kind), because a dog owner can't or won't control their animal.