Posted by Mike Yarbrough
on January 16, 2003

You miss the point.

The police are here to protect the public. All too often they see their job as to protect themselves first, then the public. This aggressive tendency is what leads to killing innocent people and could have easily turned out this way here. This was not a case where officer Hall witnessed a crime personally. He assumed the worst instead of "hey this could be a mistake and an innocent family". Are the police under the impression that everyone is guilty?

He made a rash decision based on the fact that it’s just a dog with no regard for the physiological problems this family will carry for the rest of their lives. What do you think their child’s view of all police will be from now on?

Let me ask you this, is it now acceptable for the police to kill an innocent person rather than take a chance on getting hurt themselves? That mentality kind of flies in the face of public service doesn't it?

The next time it could be a child!