Police are doing this purposefully to incite violence. They are hoping people will shoot back or worse...go on some kind of revenge rampage.
The more this happens, the more restrictive laws they can pass.
That said, I'd be firing back if they think they can just murder my dog. So there you have it. I guess I'm evil.
O'Rly?
I wonder if your widow would laugh as hard?
Or do you just not give a sh** about citizens?
LEOs openly display hostility toward citizens, and then wonder why citizens don't respect them.
I hope they pay out a huge sum of money to that guy. That's like the police killing that mans child. I'm sure they'll say the dog looked at them the wrong way or something.
Uh, not in the same universe
I'm pretty sure Ruby Ridge started out with a LEO shooting the dog in front of the armed teenage owner who then returned fire...and they killed him too