Stories like this make me so mad. It seems like stuff like this is happening all the time. A little trigger happy perhaps? Personally, if the dog was aggressive, it had every right to be, since someone was trespassing on it's property! If officers are so quick to shoot dogs, why can't they have tranquilizers or pepper spray instead? It just seems like this happens too often, and it shouldn't, especially on the property where an animal lives.

I was watching an episode of Emergency Vets, and there was a similar situation. Some woman's alarm went off, police responded, didn't find anything, went into the backyard where her sharpei advanced on them. They shot it a couple of times in the face! That seems like excessive use of force IMO. Luckily, the dog in that episode lived.