California officer shoots dog
An unfortunate situation and obviously causing quite the controversy.
Warning: shows the dog being shot and killed.
Now of course it's getting attention. I'm surprised at how many people are blaming the officer though. As a dog owner and lover, it's super unfortunate but how is this not entirely on the owner?
First and foremost, this was a hostage situation. Driving up, music blaring and trying to antagonize the police force while they are trying to save innocent people is incredibly selfish. Hate the cops all you want, try to make it a race issue any other chance you get but this isn't a fat cop picking on some skateboarding teenagers, innocent peoples lifes are at risk. If they ask you to turn down your music, turn it down. It's obvious the police didn't take issue with any of the other bystanders standing around and videotaping, yet people seem to think that was the issue they had with this individual. it wasn't.
The legality of what he was doing and how the officers responded to it can be discussed, but I don't see how the owner isn't a complete ####### here.
As for the dog, it's a rottweiler. It did nothing wrong, it looked happy and nice but to him some guys were laying hands on his master and of course it's going to get aggressive. An aggressive 90 pound rottweiler isn't a good thing, look up rottweiler attacks on Google image if you want your day ruined. So, we can say the officer was stupid for trying to get the dog under control by going for the leash but it could have been much worse having that dog offleash and excited near the officers and bystanders. It sucks, but when it went to attack that was it, not much choice left.
And of course if the owner didn't need to show off how awesome he is with his loud music the officers might not have cared enough for him to bother at all. And even if they did, the windows wouldn't have been rolled completely down for the dog to jump through.
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