[MineralMan]

"As the cop you have just made a felony stop.
For all you know you have a car full of bank robbers.
"

Yeah, right. Let's see, Mom, Dad, the kids, and their pets. No bank robbery reported. The civilians cooperated with the felony stop. They asked the cops to close the car doors because there were dogs in the car. Cops don't do that, then shoot one of the dogs. Yes, good police work, indeed.

I am sick of the us/them relationship between civilians and cops. This is just another example.

[Kevin Curry]

Yeah, right. Let's see, Mom, Dad, the kids, and their pets.

Oh, come on! You are recreating the picture to make it appear the Beaver Cleaver family and their little toy poodle Mitzi were the family in issue.

Actually, there was a late 30s man, a late 30s woman, a 17 year-old male, and a mixed mongrel mutt that looked like a pitt bull. There had been a reported felony in progress (wrong call, but cops are damned and sued if they don't treat every call as being based in fact). Meanwhile, cops are getting shot by bone-head "constitutionalists" merely for making traffic stops. This cop reacted in a way that could reasonably be expected given his vantage point.

It's unfortunate. It's a terrible shame the dog was killed. But hindsight helps no one but the nut cases and the John Edwards/Johnnie Cochran tort lawyer bar.