I happened to notice on Facebook yesterday that a woman responded saying that it was her vehicle that was stolen and below is what she had to say:
"I love how everybody is saying that the situation with the dog was too excessive what you need to understand what was so excessive was this drug addict stealing my car putting over a thousand miles on it destroying my air conditioning unit taking my truck mudding destroyed my engine had dirty needles in it lots of stolen property shall I continue.."
I only saw two comments on Facebook from individuals who said they thought the force was excessive, everyone else thought the situation was handled well. That suspect could have easily been carrying a weapon of some kind and if the officer HAD handled things differently, we might now be commenting on the death of a K-9 and his handler.
Again, I take no pleasure in other people 's pain. It hurts me to watch the video, too, but the fact is that poor decisions will often come back to bite you in the butt and in his case, that's literally what happened. Such is the life of a criminal.
By the way, there is at least one more video of this same officer and his dog on You Tube if anyone is interested. It involves a chase of two suspects in a vehicle, they crash, one guy gets out and starts running. The officer deploys his dog, but then he has to deal with the other suspect on his own so his dog is actually out of sight for a few minutes.