Oakland Police Shoot Dog -- Yes, Again

This is a 37-year-old magazine cover -- no dogs were harmed

​Sometimes one gets the feeling that the Oakland Police didn't think the end of Old Yeller was sad at all. KTVU-TV is reporting the department's members are, once again, in hot water for shooting a dog. The condition of that pit bull is unknown at this time. 

This comes on the heels of last month's lethal shooting of an arthritic 11-year-old yellow lab who purportedly menaced an officer when cops arrived at the Hallock family's Oakland hills home following a burglar alarm call. In that incident, the police left a note to the family reading "Oakland police responded to your residence to investigate a burglar alarm. While circling the rear perimeter, lab advanced on officers in a threatening manner before being shot and killed."

Of course, both of these incidents pale in comparison to May's inexplicable execution of a baby deer that wandered into an East Oakland backyard. You are forgiven if you decide to not watch this film.




Look, we get it -- being an Oakland Police officer is not easy. But there's almost no way to craft horrific PR more efficiently than killing animals. At least animals people like. On that note -- Happy Thanksgiving.

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