[FreedomCalls]

In fact, officer Hall had just stepped forward to hand the handcuffing officer HIS pair of handcuffs and as he stepped back, the dog got out.

Yet Hall somehow claims he did not hear the father and mother begging for the door to be closed. Selective hearing?

[optimistically_conservative]

Hall should not, and will not, receive any punishment for shooting Patton the dog.

Hall's actions were neither criminal nor negligent. Shooting the dog was the unfortunate result of negligence by the THP.

From the dispatch call to the determination to make a felony stop. To the failure of the THP officer observing, being told about the dogs, and seeing the dogs not securing the vehicle.

Patton should not have had the opportunity to get out of the car, and there's is ample evidence on the tape that it was preventable. Hall should not have been put in the position of reading Patton's mind during an incomplete felony stop where only he and his partner were providing cover.

I suppose as a last resort, Officer Hall could have tossed his shotgun away from the vehicles and shouted, "Fetch!"