anyone who thinks that the cop was justified is not one of my people,,with your reasoning it would be ok to then shoot the cop, the cop was wrong and there is no justification for what he did,
The dog was clearly trying to bite him, and he did not shoot until the dog came at him the second time.
Again, was he supposed to just let the dog bite him?
i was as a kid chased on bikes by dogs and had dogs run at me and never felt the need to kill anyone of them
Me too, but on a bike they can easily be out run.
stun gun or pepper spray ot the baton would have worked
Pepper spray would have worked, but I wouldn't suggest (from personal experience) using the other two. A truly aggressive dog will just try to get you more, if you hit it with a stick. A long thick stick is good to keep them back, but it probably won't stop an attack.
A stun gun is only effective when the dog is at a point to bite. At that point, he's too close, because dogs have quicker reaction times than we do.
hell even firing the gun into the air would have scared the dog off,,
That'd get you arrested where I live. Use of a gun is the use of deadly force. If you are firing one only to scare an attacker without the intent to kill, that constitutes proof that you did not think deadly force was actually necessary.
If deadly force was not necessary, the use of a gun would be illegal. It's not a noise maker.
,i cant shoot dogs that are bothering me what makes the cop special?
You sure can if the dog is being aggressive and trying to attack. Dogs can cause serious harm and even death. No way to know ahead of time if the one coming at you in the heat of the moment is all bark, or all bite until it's too late.
Again, are you supposed to let 'em bite you and THEN fight back against it?
if i was to kill a cops dog under the same cicumstances i would be charged as if i had murdered a human,
The difference is that a police dog is trained and won't be running loose of it's lead in a public place.
double standards are wrong and so was that so called policeman. who in thier right mind starts discharging a firearm around kids??
Doesn't matter. All that matters is whether or not there was legal justification for doing so.
As long as the officer (or anyone in that position) made sure that no down range persons were hit, it's perfectly legal.
I was recently attacked by two dogs, and would have been fully justified in shooting them. I used pepper spray on them this time. Next time they'll get the same treatment the dog in the vid got, and I'll feel really good about it too.
As for kids, the dogs I sprayed ended up getting the stuff all over their owners little kids. I kinda felt good about that, too.
As for the vid, the sole fault of that dog getting shot, is on it's owner for letting it run loose in a their front yard. I don't know where that happened, but I'm pretty sure there's a leash law for dogs in public. Had they had their dog on a leash or tied up, or in a fenced yard, the cop would not have shot the dog. It ran out to the street where that cop was, or anyone could have been. What if it had been another child and the dog bit him? Would it be ok to shoot the dog then?
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