You were not respectful.
You arrogantly insulted a fellow FReeper for no reason.
This is a simple fact and if you can’t understand this and admit it then there is something wrong with you.
As for the passages from the article you excerpt, nothing there shows that the dog was restrained. Genoa and I (and others) simply expressed the opinion that if you call the police to come to your house to investigate a violent crime then you should secure your dog away from the responding officers.
If you have some reasonable, intelligent rejoinder to this opinion then you have not yet stated it.
How?
Why does someone have to confine their property (dog) because they call the police. If the dog is well trained and does not attack the police the police have no right to do anything to the dog. The article does not indicate the dog was doing anything to the police. This looks to me like an over reaction by the police and a destruction of private property.
So the cops are in the right to walk up to any dog that is not “secured” or “restrained”, regardless of what the dog is or is not doing at the time?
If the dog is not “secured away from” the cops, but is just sitting there in the yard, watching what’s going on, the cop is justified in walking up to it and shooting it?
There was nothing reported in the article that indicated the dog presented any kind of viable threat to any of the officers. Eye witnesses stated that the dog was not doing anything and the female cop walked up to it and shot it in the head.
Let’s say it was sitting there barking excitedly at what was going on. Is that proper cause to execute it?
The owner stated that she had time to say to the cop, “please don’t point your gun at my dog! Don’t shoot my dog!” This would seem to indicate the cop was walking up to the dog with gun drawn - not hurriedly pulling out her gun to defend herself from a vicious attacking animal.
There simply is nothing there to indicate that the cop was presented with a real threat of imminent serious physical injury that would justify such a use of force.
Yeah, I know, we weren’t there, and it’s the cops word against the other witnesses, but it certainly sounds like the cop was not in any real danger and just decided to “neutralize” the dog.