Defensive Gun Use, Only Ones style.

Another rabid, dangerous family pet bites the dust:

A Clayton County mother of six said the family dog did what he always did when he saw someone. He barked.

But when "Boomer" started barking and running toward a police officer Saturday morning, the officer shot the dog and killed it, Lawrene King told the AJC Sunday night.

One of these days, police are going to be held financially accountable for killing a dog when dogs do what dogs do.

I did a poor Google search and found a map and property information on the house. It's in a fairly affluent neighborhood (4BR, 3BA), wooded, and in the county. Just where folks normally have dogs who run the neighborhood off leash (because it's the county ... duh).

And folks in the county have dogs for home protection. This dog was doing exactly what dogs do; he saw someone who (if he at least had reason to be there) was unknown, so the dog alerted the family and ran toward the 'threat'.

Also mentioned is that the property had an electric fence, but that there was not sign to let the cough...idiot...cough officer know.

Let me tell you something. If there is an officer running around your county who can't identify an electric fence, that officer needs to go.

Of course, there will be an investigation, but I predict the officer will, at most, get a reprimand, having been found to have followed police procedure.

Police procedure needs to change.

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