Originally posted by Tzeentch._Abuse is hurting another creature, it being your fault that an animal was needlessly hurt and killed == animal abuse.
"It's your fault" =\= committing animal abuse. I can go up to someones window and blow raspberries at a dog all ****ing day long. If he goes apeshit and jumps through the window and attacks me, I'm well within my rights to break its ****ing neck.Furthermore, the dog was locked up in a car (or so they thought), no one was counting on the dog jumping out of the window.
Like, people need to seriously think this through. It's apparently "animal abuse" because the police falsely arrested somebody. Errrrr, so you're saying that if the black guy had been selling crack on the corner with his dog on a leash, and then the police arrested him, it wouldn't be animal abuse if the dog slipped its leash and the cops ended up shooting it? Come on.
This is why you need to separate the incidences in your mind. False arrest does not turn killing an animal into abuse. I mean shit, animal abuse doesn't even mean "unlawful killing of animals", like its murder or some shit, otherwise you could go to jail for running a cat over. Animal abuse is specifically in regards to inflicting suffering on an animal or torturing it. Freaking out and shooting a dog, who presumably died seconds later, can not count as animal abuse.
Anyways we're not talking about you blowing raspberries at a car or a cat that randomly runs into the street and you can't avoid it. We are talking about an animal that went to defend it's master and a cop that didn't have to kill the dog and instead decided to kill the dog.
The cops had plenty of time to think of another way of handling that situation. And if you don't think that animal suffered needlessly while it laid on the street dying and twitching then I won't be taking your opinion on this subject seriously anymore.
EDIT: And FYI I'm not using the legal definition of animal abuse in fact in the sentence you quoted I didn't even use the term animal abuse. But clearly an animal was hurt that shouldn't have been.