If the police are concerned enought to have an entire family handcuffed and on the ground, they are not going to put up with a dog running around.
I was just up fixing supper and I saw that video on the Abram's report on MSNBC. That dog walked outta that car wagging his tail and playfully sidling up to the officer the way dogs do when they want to be a part of what the "humans" are doing -- and boy, they always do! It was really cute to see -- up until that part where the dog's head gets blown open like a melon from a shotgun blast.
Oh, but it's just a dog -- who cares, right? Wrong. I watched how those officers responded, and when I saw their positions and how they jolted into full response mode, it looked like "THE TRAINING" kicking in. The U.S. have thoroughly militarized their police force, and it shows.
Oh yeah, it's just a dog, and that Scott what's-his-name that got killed in his California home during a no-knock raid was just one guy, and that elderly black gentleman who died of a heart attack during a no-knock raid was just an old man, and Amadou Diallo shouldn't have pulled his wallet on those NY cops, and those folks in Waco were just ignorant wackos. It all doesn't mean a damn thing -- just scattered anecdotes among a sea of good solid Andy Griffith types, right? Wrong again. It is 100%, top-down, symptomatic. Hell, Illinois just let out four death row inmates who were tortured into confession -- that Leroy Orange guy got electric shocks to his balls and an electric rod up his ass. So yeah, everything's just hunky-freakin'-dory, Mr. Gridlock.
Donald Scott.
And don't forget Alberto Sepulveda, eleven years old, laying face down on the floor, blasted in the back by a shotgun-carrying JBT.
I don't recall peeing in your Cheerios this morning, but if I did, I'm sorry.
My statement was that if the Police are in a mode where they are pulling a family out of a car and have them handcuffed on the ground, the dog is probably going to get shot. You can criticize the decision to go all JBT on this poor family, but once that decision is made, Rover's gonna buy the farm.
From what I have seen of this case, the decision to make an agressive stop like this was probably unwarranted, and the actions of the policemen were over-the-top. It is unfortunate, but the "control the situation" mentality is SOP for the police these days.