• be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My first reaction to that final quoted sentence is “well they are callous with human life, why wouldn’t they be with a dog?”

    But my second reaction is, “Don’t they have to account for every on-duty weapon discharge??” You’d think putting “shot dog” as the reason you fired your weapon would be trackable.

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      1 year ago

      It also implies that the same cop has killed a dog more than once. Which would get you fired in pretty much any other situation. But of course, cops are always immune from that sort of thing.

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      No, they don’t have to account for every discharge, in fact no one in the US has any idea how many times police fire their weapons.