[Diplomat]

Officer Hall did nothing wrong here. He is the victim of the Tennesse Highway Patrols stupidity. I've heard this dog described as small by several posters. I couldn't get the video to download and play clean, so I can't make a size judgement myself. But wouldn't a full grown pit-boxer mix be a medium to large size dog? Small dogs are toy poodles, pugs, pomeranians, etc. Pits are classified as medium and boxers are larger sized than pits. Having some experience with pits and mixed pits, I would NOT have hesitated to shoot the dog that came after me either. Pitbulls are EXTREMELY loyal to their family who treat them well and make excellent guard dogs. Furthermore, pits have very powerful bites, but more importantly, they lock-bite their prey. In otherwords, it or their prey must die for them to give up the bite. This is why they are often used by dog-fighting aholes.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol also concluded its troopers had probable cause to conduct the stop, though officials were still trying to determine how the Smoaks were suspected in a robbery that never happened. This statement is where the true problem with this police action lies. Can someone please explain how the THP concluded a FELONY ROBBERY had been committed by the discovery of a wallet on the highway with money spilled from it and STILL IN IT when recovered? This is what mystifies me, the stop never should have been made and the wallet should have been taken to the police lost-and-found. No one reported the wallet stolen. So why do the police get to assume that to be the case with a wallet that CONTAINS cash?

[chimera]

The reporter is wrong. The owner said it was a bulldog-boxer mix. It had no pit bull component. That makes a big difference. Bulldogs are generally quite passive, as are boxers. Pitbulls can be aggressive, depending on breeding/training (or lack thereof).

[EBUCK]

The dog was at most a 20 pound dog (maybe 25) and my full grown pitt/stafordshire is a 65 pound dog. No comparison....

[Wright is right!]

"I couldn't get the video to download and play clean, so I can't make a size judgement myself. But wouldn't a full grown pit-boxer mix be a medium to large size dog?"

GEEZ, Louise. It's not a pit-boxer mix. It's a Boxer/English Bulldog mix. English bulldogs are small. A "Pit Bull" is a Staffordshire Terrier, with a huge head, short stubby legs and a stiff frame.

Hard to believe you've missed the video on TV. Everyone's been playing it.

Michael

[kanawa]

they lock-bite their prey. In otherwords, it or their prey must die for them to give up the bite. This is why they are often used by dog-fighting aholes.

What a load of crap. Their jaws do not lock. They are tenacious and will hold on in a fighting situation but they release on command. I have never or never would condon dog-fighting but I have studied it in order to know my enemy. During the period when dog-fighting was semi-respectable if a dog did not release at the handlers command or worse turned on his handler when the handler was separating the dogs he would be put down. The point that the media and others are either ignorant of or deliberately avoiding of is that pits and related breeds were bred to be docile to humans.
Unfortunately there are creatures that twist the pits natural tendencies and train them to be human aggressive.

[Sungirl]

It was a medium size dog. It jumped out of the car ...wagging it's tail...it was happy...then it trotted to the cop with the flashlight and the cop shot it. THe cop lost control of his senses....and shot a happy dog wagging it's tail....he should definetely be off the streets.