I love dogs, but it's a DOG people. When did we start caring more about dogs than people? When did someone getting killed ever generate this much outcry?
I care about my dogs more than I do about a stranger.
That's natural. What's wrong with you?
"...I love dogs, but it's a DOG people..."
He has a right to that opinion.
If Hall were being lynched within my eyesight I wouldn't raise a finger to help him.
Regrets, if any, would be limited to not having some hot, fresh popcorn to go with the spectacle unfolding in front of me.
My anger is over the stupidity of all four officers involved. If the dog was really a threat, there was a very simple way to neutralize that threat. They could have simply closed the door. I'll even agree that any dog is potentially dangerous. That's all the more reason to close the door! Even if the dog didn't attack, it might have run onto the interstate, caused another vehicle to swerve, and caused a fatal crash. Again, they could have eliminated this threat by just closing the door. I lived in Cookeville for three years, and I thought very highly of most people there. However, this incident leaves me wondering whether they have any training for their police or whether they just leave them in a room with tapes of old episodes of C*O*P*S. Their refusal to close the door showed willful negligence, and willful negligence should be punished.
It would have been simple (to avoid the shooting)
Bill