Michigan court rules okay for police to kill your dog

America is dead if you can't kill a dog.

Technically, this also means if they end up at your home by accident, and your dog reacts to them in your back yard, they can kill it.

The ruling is regarding the police shooting your dog. Not you shooting your own dog.

This is nonsense. I hope they appeal further.

I'm actually OK with this as long as it is just the Pitts they probably encounter frequently.

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If the dog does anything other sit silently, they are justified in killing it

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If the penalty for shooting a police dog is the same as shooting a police officer, then shouldn't the same requirements for a police officer shooting me be applied to shooting my dog? That is, shouldn't the officer be constrained by the same protocols?

This is bullshite!

Shoot at my dog... expect return fire!

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He told them he had a key, and that they didn’t need to destroy the front door to gain entry into the home. But destroy it they did.

The Browns dispute the claims by police that the dogs were barking. Mark Brown even testified the smaller of the two dogs had “never barked a day in her life.” Officer Klein said the larger dog was barking and “lunged” at him, but later admitted the pet “had only moved a few inches.”

Despite there being no attack, Klein fired a round at the dog. Both dogs ran away from the officers to the basement, obviously fleeing in fear. There, the two dogs were shot and killed by the officers who felt that they could not properly clear the room and effectively execute the search warrant on the home, explaining they “did not feel [the officers] could safely clear the basement with those dogs down there.”

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frick these cops!

I'll support the blue line as much as anyone, but these assholes took it too far.

I'll let you in on a little secret:

People that have large, angry and poorly trained dogs are the types of people that might have the cops called to their house,

If an Officer cannot discern and articulate when to shoot a dog and when not to shoot they likely do not need to be making choices on when to deprive someone of there freedom either. Having said that, a search warrant for an alleged heroin den with pitbulls isn't where I would want to fight this fight.

Cats control the court's.