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Evan Bartlett
Oct 18, 2014

An unnamed police officer has come under fire after video footage appears to show him calling over a dog before shooting and killing it with his sidearm.
The officer, from Cleburne, Texas, had been called out to a disturbance where three pitbulls were said to be acting in a very aggressive manner and not letting people exit a vehicle.
But the officer has now been criticised for his handling of the incident after footage from a body camera he was wearing appears to show him making kissing sounds at what look like two fairly sedate dogs before shooting three times.
To call the dog and act like you’re going to be sweet to the dog, and you just blatantly shoot it, I don’t think that’s right at all.
- Virginia Granger, local resident
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