Sorry.
Not buying this totally bogus sob story.
The "service dog" meme fails; the dog was outside running loose. Not much servicing (or the phony need for it) in evidence. Irresponsible dog owners are an epidemic.
Evidently some neighbors, much closer to the problem than the author of this phony story, thought there was enough of concern to call the authorities.
There was no indication that the dog was threatening humans, just running loose. Which should be dealt with. But this was not a police matter, it was an animal control matter. Forget the service dog stuff, that’s baloney.
Most dogs will growl at strangers intruding on their territory. That is perfectly normal.
You go onto someone’s property unannounced, knowing they have a dog, you better expect to be growled at. That doesn’t give you the right to shoot the dog in its own yard.
Maybe the ‘service dog’ thing fails....maybe, but, did you see the video? Do you think the jackboot could have tried his spray first? How about his taser? How did the USA’s mail men survive all of these years? How many dogs did they have to shoot? This dog was not some ROP monster pitbull already latched onto the jackboot’s leg causing a life threatening situation to him either. So now a young boy’s best pal is gone and for no damn freakin’ reason. If this had been your boy, and your/his dog how would you feel? Would you tell your boy the jackboot had NO other option other than to kill his best pal when he cried to you......”Why Dad, why did the policeman kill my doggy?”
It was probably a Muslim neighbour that called the cops.