Austin Police Officer Fatally Shot Dog While Responding To Wrong House

A man in Texas says that a police officer fatally shot his dog at point blank range.

An Austin police officer who responded to the wrong house on a domestic disturbance call is accused of fatally shooting an innocent man's dog.

The dog's owner, Michael Paxton, was playing Frisbee with the Blue Heeler, named Cisco, on Saturday afternoon when the officer entered his property, ABC reported.

"While I was at gunpoint, my dog came from my backyard barking at the officer," Paxton wrote on the "Justice For Cisco" Facebook page. "I yelled for the officer to not shoot my dog, that he will not bite, but the officer immediately shot and killed my dog right in front of me."

I have been told by a friend who is an LAPD officer that this is what officers are trained to do as policy. To me that is just gratuitous emotional violence - inflicted on innocent people as often as not.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."