A Tennessee state senator begs to differ:
"In this situation, it just seems like common sense was absent as well as common decency,'' Cohen said. "Common sense would have said you shut the door on the car, simply so the dog wouldn't get out into traffic and cause a traffic accident and possibly somebody's loss of life. That was just as likely to happen as what did happen.''
There is a lot more here than just a dead dog, but also the problem of current police tactics getting officers on the scene completely juiced with adrenaline so they have a hard time using common sense. Oh, and there are THREE dead dogs at the hand of this officer, so it isn't just an isolated incident.