The Smoats should sue the TN State Police for leaving the door open. The Smoats should sue the Cookeville Police of shooting the dog. The TN State Police should sue Mr Smoats for recklessly leaving his wallet on top of the car and starting this mess. Mr. Smoats should be fined for littering. The lady who reported the Smoats car should be sued. The dispatcher should be sued. The gun maker and bullet manufacturers should be sued. The Smoats should be sued for not properly restraining the dog in a moving vehicle, which any vet will tell you an unrestrained dog is an accident waiting to happen. The car company should be sued for having made dog restraint devices standard. The police academies should be sued for not properly training for dog stops. The people who have called and threatened the 86 year old grandmother who is now afraid of her phone because she unfortunately is listed as E. Hall in Cookeville should sue everyone who has called her. Officer Hall should sue everyone who has made a threatening call or posted a threatening email.
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The police need to be de-militarized and a workable procedure for dealing with animal occupants of stopped vehicles should be created. The officer in question should apologize, and the family should be modestly compensated (by settlement). As for me, I'm going to restrain my dogs while transporting them from now on.