There was much wrestling, biting of necks and legs, pining to the ground, jumping upon each other, snarling.

Just two dogs playing. How is it some moron with a duty-only badge and an unlawfully carried gun gets a pass?

If there was some life threatening scenario unfolding, how come his dog wasn’t seen by the vet clinic? Surely, there should be some physical evidence to back up their claims. At least one puncture wound. I mean the cop said “Bear Bear” was attacking and biting… where’s the evidence of an attack?

The reality of the situation is very clear. There was no life threatening scenario, no need to respond with lethal force, no need to behave as he did, but Keith Shepherd is obviously the idiot here, and not the alleged “slow responding” 23 year old handler of “Bear Bear”.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Felony-Animal-Cruelty-Charge-Glynn-Demon-Johnson.html Ex-Fire Official Who Beat Dog Ordered to Stand Trial

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/LA-County-Assistant-Fire-Chief-Says-He-Killed-Neighbors-Dog-in-Self-Defense.html LA County Asst. Fire Chief Says He Killed Neighbor’s Dog in Self-Defense … noted that California Penal Code Section 597 makes it a felony for anyone to maliciously and intentionally maim, torture or wound a living animal.

You’re a fucking moron, who doesn’t know the first thing about either dogs or the situation, and you still feel qualified to comment?

The husky was in a fenced area at a FUCKING GODDAMNED DOG PARK. In case you’re not aware, Radley helpfully posted in the story that bringing a leashed dog into a dog park is a bad idea. Did you miss that part?

Both dogs off leash will sniff, look at each other, maybewrestle, make some noises, and generally greet and play. One dog on a leash is a bad idea, because he’s limited in how he can react, and is artificially under the control of a human when the other dog is trying to act…like a dog.

Jesus Fucking Christ, is it too hard to read into Radley’s second paragraph?

Anne Arundel County Police Department at first decided that no “criminal activity” took place, but after outraged citizens inundated County Executive John Leopold with phone calls, he demanded that AACPD investigate the shooting. The investigation isn’t complete, but upon doing some actual police work, AACPD believes that this officer may not have been authorized to carry a weapon off-duty!!!

So much for no criminal activity. So, had the citizens of Anne Arundel not been so outraged over this reckless use of force, the AACPD would have been content to not investigate, leaving this guy to continue to carry his weapon ILLEGALLY.

Furhtermore, as to carrying a “personal” firearm off-duty, one had to have written approval for that specific weapon, so that these security guard types didn’t play out their Dirty Harry fantasies by carrying inappropriate weapons. My guess is that this cop was issued a .45 ACP GLOCK 21 as a duty weapon and that he went out and bought a little 9 mm to carry off-duty and didn’t have it approved. Furthermore, if evidence surfaces of creating paper after-the-fact to try to cover this up, I’d push for more than this apparently punk kid’s removal from D.O.D.

And it was VERY tongue-in-cheek:
• H. L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian by Murray N. Rothbard http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Lq4uROsvIjYJ:www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard19.html+The+Nature+of+Liberty,+by+H.L.+Mencken&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Nevermind the dog for a minute – whipping out and discharging a firearm in a densely populated urban area (to protect your own dog! or at least gratuitously risk its safety by shooting another dog that is wrestling with it) is “excessive” the same way that raping and murdering a six-year-old is “kinda mean”.

Anyway, even if we were talking about the pig fearing for his own safety, well, he’s a pig, and they’re of far less moral concern than dogs.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/pawprintpost/post/2010/08/dead-dog-case-probe-into-dog-park-shooting-intensifies/1

If the dog owner’s account is true, that the officer gave no time for the two people in charge of the husky time to seperate the dogs then hopefully they’ll nail this guys career to a tree.