I have never read a comment by any Freeper who believes that. What many of us do believe is that all evidence and information should be available before we convict and hang a cop! There are some freepers who will jump at the chance to attack law enforcement and I am not talking about just the ATF and FBI! Cops are tried and convicted here every day before the evidence is in!
I have yet to see any outrage by LEOs posted here that some freepers won't defend. From the shotgun slaying of a 12 year old, to Waco to Ruby Ridge I have yet to see anything where some freepers didn't jump to the defence of LE.
If police were more selective and critical of their own, it would not be neccssary to make an example of Eric "Dog Killer" Hall. If the headline had been "Cop shoots dog in egregious error, gets fired." it would be over.
As it is, he, and his family if anyone would be married to him, will have to live with the assesment of the majority of the people here for the rest of his life. That video is part of the record forever now, and available all over the planet at the touch of a button. If you were Eric Hall, you'd be feeling a little low by now.
The very fact that there is any evidence shows that there is at least one good cop in this whole mess. I was expecting that any video equipment during this event would have had an "unfortunate malfunction" and we would have had to rely on the word of officers instead of our eyes and ears.
I doubt that the shooting was against any policy. More and more the first action by the police in any action is to shoot the dog if it even looks crosseyed at the cops. They just shot the family pooch instead of the dog of someone they could say was a drug dealer or had an address similar to a drug dealer's.