If a dog is off a leash and not behind a fence I tend to give the benefit of doubt to the cop. Owners almost always claim that their dog is sweet and gentle. 49 years ago I was bitten by one of those gentle dogs. After a trip to the emergency room for a tetanus shot my brother went to the owner’s house to tell her to quarantine the dog to determine if it had rabies and the dog bit him. Both times the dog had growled and bared it’s teeth before biting and both times the woman had said ‘don’t hurt him he won’t bite’.
You can’t reason with an animal. If it is acts like it might attack I assume it’s going to.
The author of this article says you don’t hear about other professions getting bitten. To that I will just respond with an old saying: ‘Dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is’.
Now if a cop shoots a dog inside a fenced in yard or the dog is retrained then that’s a different matter.
And I do like dogs. Just not aggressive unrestrained ones.
“he fired his weapon as required by training.”
Then the training is f***** up and needs to be changed. And everyone who signed off on it needs to be sued I to bankruptcy.
Way back in the Dark Ages, when this ol’ great granny was in school...
The local Constable wheeled into the school grounds and shot a stray dog right outside our windows.
Nothing new here.