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"I can guarantee you, when the officer pumped off that shotgun round, all those officers on the scene had a mental lightning bolt hit their brains."

So now that you looked back at the tape and saw that your statement that "you can clearly see" the officers jump was completely wrong, you're telling me you can now see what they were thinking?

"Once someone shoots, others are very likely to do the same."

The officer right next to the shooting officer raised his weapon to fire but he didn't shoot when he saw the dog go down. The father then lunged at the officers but they refrained from shooting him.

"I don't care how you chop it up, this looks pretty damn ugly."

Agreed. And I'm not fond of any of the actions of the officers on site. But, I want some more answers before I convict. I want to hear more about the dog, that's all.

One other note, the mother started screaming as soon as the dog started toward the police officer. Did she initially think that the dog could have been a threat? She appears to have been positioned where she couldn't see the shooting officer (There was an officer between her and the shooting officer) and the dog wasn't heading for the highway. Why was she concerned? I don't know but these are questions that I would like to see answered before I hang the cop.

LOL! Go back and look at the video again. Look at the whole scene. When the dummy shoots the small dog the scene goes from one of relative calm to total chaos in a split second, it could have triggered a chain reaction causing the police to actually shoot the suspects, or innocent family members in this case.

There have been cases where in the moments of a critical situation, one cop shoots at a suspect that made a bad, sudden move, and the rest of the cops open up at other suspects that were also being detained. This has happened many times.

There was also cases where a swat team had a house surrounded, and one cop sees something and fires off a round, causing 15 more cops to open up on the house. It's human reaction and it happens......

"One other note, the mother started screaming as soon as the dog started toward the police officer. Did she initially think that the dog could have been a threat? She appears to have been positioned where she couldn't see the shooting officer (There was an officer between her and the shooting officer) and the dog wasn't heading for the highway. Why was she concerned?"

Because the car was stopped on a road shoulder with there was passing traffic, likely to hit the dog and kill it. I suspect the idea that the poor mutt would be blown away by the jack-booted jerk/Gestapo wannabee never entered her mind until it happened.