[Video] Police search home for pipe of marijuana; shoot dogs in front of wife and child.

[Zorg Machine]

only doing their job. just unfortunate that the kids had to see.

Their job is breaking down the doors of people who have a small possession of marijuana (like everyone does or has had at some point)with their weapons out and shooting dogs for barking when they kick down the door?

Uhh, speak for yourself.
I have never had any illegal narcotic. Ever.

Their job to is ensure the safety of the public, as well as themselves.
These guys are raiding a house for a drug search warrant (Which had to have been approved by a judge), and they encountered a dog. The dog was barking it's head off, and they chose safety over a 'lets wait and see how mean it is' approach. I don't doubt that it's sad for the family, but the reality is: Not every dog is friendly. And when you're a SWAT team member, you're used to seeing the worst of the worst. And so when a dog barks at you like that (And it certainly didn't sound friendly), you have to put yourself in their shoes.

As for whether or not the raid was justified, I find it hard to believe that a judge would approve a warrant for just a small amount of weed. That may be all they found, but that says less about the officers themselves and more about their intel. I don't blame them on the execution of that raid in the slightest.

I meant that there are a lot of people in USA who have been in possession of, or used marijuana at some point.

If a man dressed in full SWAT-gear you hear a dog barking inside the house and your instinct tells you to run in and shoot it. Based on the bark, it was a medium sized dog which is basically harmless to a fully armored man and this is not mentioning that they endangered the family. Based on the sound of that gun, it was a shotgun and if just one of those shots had ricocheted, the child could have been struck. This is backed up by another SWAT-team doing just that to a 13 year old boy (it struck him in the leg) they then handcuffed him.
It seems to me as if they have the policy of immediately shooting any creature that's not human, no matter the crime. These are US citizens. They treat the family as if they're the headquarters of a criminal organization when two police officers could have done the same job without even being armed.

 

[Fightgarr]

My main point is that people love to jump all over things like this without knowing everything, and without even trying to think of themselves in a similar situation.

This is something I can get behind. In fact I could get behind pretty much everything you said, I just was put off by the fact that non-lethal methods are not used by default in situations like that.