One other thing in most counties/states a person calling in say for example a suspected DUI driver on a cellphone , the officer can follow the car but HAS TO OBSERVE for themselves the violation. In this case there was no alarm, no violation seems to me they were stopping the family illegally. Also how many people rob a gas station or anywhere with their family and the families dogFamily night out or something....<this may get me smacked > but I think the officers were to eager and way too nervous <possible Mr. Doughnut break needed>?//
Makes me wonder if a child had been in the car and had come wandering out would he have also shot it???? The officer had a billy club and pepper spray.......deadly force hmmmm I am a pet lover but here in KC where they have jumped the gun more than once, I see them calling animal control BEFORE they ever remove the people from the car then they shut the door until animal control gets there. Also most officers can distinguish breed of dog and WHY didn't they ask??? Why didn't they have the owner call the dog??? All I know if someone shot MY DOG when I had done NOTHING wrong I would make them pay dearly. Now if I had committed a crime well. geesh I deserve it then.
<edited to add more than 2cents worth>
Edited by - SheilaM on 12 January 2003 13:36:37