They were shot because someone accused the dogs of biting them to the police. The person who called them did not have an injury that required a medical unit. Witnesses say she wasn’t bitten, but got her legs caught in the leads. The homeless man was tazed.

Should go to jail for this. Two dogs are dead. Something similar happened with Neeley. People were calling 911 and claimed that he had a gun or a knife. Cops didn't get to him, but it would have made for a high tension situation that didn't need to be.

Regardless, they sent a unit of about 15 officers, including multiple armed units to go deal with a homeless man and his dogs. Say it’s 8 officers, that’s 2 armed + 6 unarmed paid for 1 hours work (8), when you could send 1 armed officer (?), and 1 unarmed officer to do a few hours of de escalation work, (8 paid hours if it takes 4 hours by two officers). I feel like with two calm people they easily could’ve de-escalated the situation to just talk with the man about it first rather than going in as a squad guns blazing. Same hours paid. No gun discharge. No tazing homeless man.

I take that back. Cops live for creating high tension situations. 15 officers for a single homeless man and two dogs? I've seen this sort of disproportionate response to the homeless a couple times in the States. First time was a few years ago and a squad car and van responded to some complaint about two homeless men that were just sitting around minding their business.

Second time was actually just a week or two ago. 3-4 cops seemed to be harassing a homeless man that I pass by everyday. He's always minding his own business for the most part. He tries to sell some art, but I've never seen him harrassing anyone. Guess someone called the cops on him for drinking in public since they took a bottle from him, but he was pretty calm about it.

Its fucking sad that people go out of their way to cause as much harm as possible to the homeless by calling the cops on them.