Cops routinely kill dogs as a matter of course, and say whatever they want to the arrested. Personal consequences for it are laughable, especially in the current political climate.
Pets are considered mere property damage by the law. I think that's pretty out of line with how most pet owners would feel about anyone hurting their pets.
Anything someone doesn’t like becomes a reason Rome burned.
Water pipes made of lead? Rome burned.
Invasions by barbarian tribes that I’m going to liken to modern immigration to push my anti-immigration stance? Rome burned.
Adoption of Christianity by Theodosius in 395AD? Believe it or not, Rome burned in 410AD.
“Double standards”? Rome burned.
This only works on people who’ve never opened a history book in their lives. Why would you try it here, where people are much more likely to be familiar with Roman history?
I reckon that once the police start trying to frame a man for the imaginary murder of his own father, threatening to actually kill his dog sounds like the most drab of offenses Especially on account of that coming into play later.
Your “trying to frame a man” is their “trying to get him to confess to something he did”. It’s intellectually lazy on their part to jump to that conclusion without any sort of due diligence, but it’s not necessarily evil per se.
The reason John Wick did that is because "man murders hundreds of people, but its ok for us to admire him for it because they deserved it because they killed his wife /girlfriend" is entirely overdone.
People do of course care about their pets, but John Wick used the death of a pet as its instigating event because it was different, not because it was a remotely usual way to respond to a pets death.
I'm not sure why this comment was killed. A heading in the ABC 11 article is literally "Officers involved were later promoted". The text of the article later goes on to say
> Months after the interrogation, Guthrie was named a 2019 Employee of the Year for the Fontana Police Department.
> Guthrie is now a sergeant. So is Janusz.
> And Michael Dorsey, the lieutenant who Guthrie says told him and Janusz that officers believed Perez Jr. had killed his father, has been promoted to captain and is now chief of police of Fontana, overseeing 188 sworn officers, according to its website.
Someone should be in prison. This will not end untill there are personal consequences.