Seriously, did he have ANY reason? At all?

A cop responds to an alarm that turns out to be false. He checks around, just to be safe – and then shoots and kills a family's Black Lab in their own backyard. His reason for it? Only he knows.

Feichter, her husband, and their two sons were visiting family in North Carolina when the shooting happened in the backyard of their Howard Street home. Feichter, 33, who runs a philanthropic consulting firm, said she can’t believe the officer had no choice but to shoot Ciarra.

“He could have said ‘Stop!’, he could have said ‘Wait!’, he could have pulled out Mace, he could have just stepped behind our garden fence, he could have fired into the ground,” she said. “Ciarra would have taken off and sat shivering in a corner. She’s very timid.”

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Neighbors rushed over. Ashley Derrick and Alison Grounds picked up Ciarra and drove her to the vet, but it was too late.

In an email to members of the East Lake Neighbors Community Association, Derrick wrote that she arrived to find the officer beside the dog.

“I asked why he had to shoot her,” she wrote. “He could give me no answer.”

Cops and dogs: an equation that is becoming more and more obviously incompatible with a happy result.

Seriously, look at that lab from the family pic ... How the hell can that be of any danger? And who in their right mind would just shoot it dead – for absolutely no reason?

(via The Agitator)