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gigag04 wrote:Cant speak to this situation as I wasn't there.

However, I'll offer an open invite for anyone to come and ride for a night. We can go see some nice pets people keep over in the hood.

The idea that the only option an officer has when APPROACHED by a dog is to shoot it before it attacks him, is ridiculous. Every single day, in every single town in this country, hundreds of thousands of utility company employees are going into those same yards...confronting the same animals...on the dog's home turf (backyard in many cases)...to read electric meters... usually without an owner standing there to control the dog, and yet they NEVER shoot or cripple one. That even includes those same dogs living "over in the hood". How can it be that the dogs are more prone to attack an armed officer, forcing him to defend himself with deadly force than an unarmed meter reader? I think it's obvious that the difference is in the attitude of the person...the utility employee KNOWS that if he injures an animal, he WILL be fired and subject to legal action by the owner, while the officer (in these recent cases) has a gun and believes he has the right to use it preemptively before an actual attack has occurred, because he can justify it with a ridiculous claim and be backed up by his department. This guy says he thought he was being charged by a pit bull ...yeah, sure he did, not the slightest resemblance....only bull involved in this case is of the bovine variety.