**Trending Video** Police Shoot Man's Dog

Not sure if this has been posted already, But I just came across this video and wanted to see what the world of TW thought about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej-2FlWGWcU

Pretty disturbing.

 

wow.

 

I had to stop watching as soon as shots were fired

 

It can go both ways. The dog did try to attack the officers, so the officers acted in self defense. At the same time, they could have allowed the owner to gain control of his dog. He obviously was compliant with them from the beginning of the arrest so he wouldn't have ran or attacked them. In the end though the officer was protecting himself and his fellow officers from an attacking dog.

 

Dog's instincts VS Cops training, dog lost

 

I like puppies so it was hard to watch.

 

Somewhat this. From MY point of view of watching as much as I could I do not believe AT ALL that the dog needed to be shot. The ONLY reason that the dog even got close to "attacking" was because the officer went after the dog and tried to grab him. I do however agree that the owner should have been released from hand-cuffs to grab the dog. He clearly wanted the dog OUT OF THE SITUATION when he put the dog back in the car. The owner shouldn't have even been put in handcuffs in the first place. Some fucking police.

 

I'll keep my mouth shut as much as I don't want to.

 

and then they just fucking left it there in pain.. I'll just shut my mouth now

 

x2.

 

Wow I'm military police and like stated earlier that could go both ways. But, I will say that was hard to watch and could have been handled a lot better on the cops part. They did not need to cuff the man being he was compliant. Many will only see this one sided but cops have to protect themselves they want to go home in one piece at the end of the day to. Also, you dont know what kind of crime went on in that house.

 

Wow...

 

Do you think it would have looked better if they just executed it in the street? For all they know, it could have just been shot in the leg / non-vital area and the dog could've received treatment.

I posted this on the LEO BS Thread, so if any of you are curious, you can try and look at this situation through a LEO's eyes after reading their interpretations.

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/law-enforcement-officers/223401-leo-bs-thread-141.html#post7104674

To me, yes, this is hard to watch and it's a shitty situation, but I believe that the LEO can back up that he felt he / his buddies were in a possible life / death situation, and he acted accordingly. It was a large, aggressive dog that appeared to want to attack the officers. You can definitely argue the other side, but I will pretty much give LEO's the benefit of the doubt in most situations, as most do not know what is going through their minds in literally a split second decision.

Matt

 

That would be why I shut my mouth.. and your post about large agressive dog.. any dog will protect its owner so if its small that makes a difference?

 

Naw, they'd a shot a toy poodle at least nine or ten times

 

After the video ended there was another one where a cop maced a squirrel.

 

X2 I'll back you on this bud. Unless your actually in the situation a an LEO or have experience than you may never understand why that decision was made.

 

Doesn't that violate youtubes terms of use?
Someone save that vid before it gets taken down.


The dog attacked the officer, so I am sure he wasn't wrong in shooting it. What I am not understanding is why the cops put the dude in cuffs.

 

Um, actually, yes it would. (Pretty common sense) A large dog like that will obviously do more damage than some little yippy dog.

Matt

 

I love dogs dearly, always have, always had some. That said, I give the LEO the benefit of the doubt in these situations... it's a tough call to make split second decisions in these situations. The blame belongs to to the fucking idiot asshole dog owner who was purposefully causing problems during an operation.