[mc10]

just for the record...the dog was not a pit bull...it was a very small dog and was wagging its tail in a very "friendly" way when he approached the idiot cop when the cop blew his head off... writing as a tennessean, i am extremely embarrassed about this whole situation and the cop should be jailed...

[EBUCK]

Did you see the video?

In the cops defense, the dog was moving fast. About 2 seconds is all it took for the dog to circle around and head for the cop, at least by the tape that's what it looked like.

And a lot of pit-bulls are short statured like that. I heard that it was a bulldog, which in that amount of time could be mistaken.

Someone should have closed the door to the car IMO.

[Kevin Curry]

. . . just for the record...the dog was not a pit bull

Just for the record, it was a pit bull mix. A small pit bull can savage and kill a much larger dog--or human being.

Enablers of violent dogs like to quip, "It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog" . . . unless a police officer comes out on top. Then they like to reform the mutt into a harmless, milk-toothed, persecuted fuzzball.

[DeadlyEyes]

its just a 'dog'. An inferior species mutt dog. Was it a valuable show dog worth tens of thousands of dollars?

Hell a strange dog unexpectedly comes running at me I would blow its brains out as well.