[Casio]

I will say that I have absolutely no doubt that this dog got vicious and was about to attack. It's a friggin' pit and they are ALWAYS MEAN and NASTY to strangers upsetting the household.

So it is mean and nasty. That's just too bad. Police coming to the house, for them the dog is an inconvenience no question, but they don't have some automatic right to execute the family pet, so it won't be a bother, since it isn't illegal to own one. And the dog is certainly not part of the drug issue, the potential crime.
Additionally, while arresting somebody, the police is seeking an alleged criminal, not a convicted one.

Gabor

[spunkets]

"Police coming to the house, for them the dog is an inconvenience no question, but they don't have some automatic right to execute the family pet, so it won't be a bother, since it isn't illegal to own one. "

Evidently the boy was selling pot from the home. If the family didn't want the cops in there, they should have told the boy not to do it. The cops had a valid warrant for that house that a judge signed.

" So it is mean and nasty. That's just too bad."

Given the circumstances, the cops had the right to be there. Any thing mean and nasty opposing them and posing a threat to them, is likely to be rightfully shot.

[jeremiah]

If you try to keep a police dog from attacking you, the charge is resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. When a cop kills a dog in the pursuit of their job, it is SOP.