Having now viewed the body cam, to me it appears he had verbal contact and/or visual contact with the victim prior to or simultaneous with dog starting to become a factor.
The quality of the footage isn’t great, but to me it appears the officer establishes contact with the victim, tries to get get the victim to take control of the dog, possibly while creating distance from the dog, while it’s closing. The dog then comes between the officer and the victim at which point shots are fired. All in what seems to be less than 15 seconds.
I’m curious if that is what you see in the footage.
Yep. I'm saying in the process of the dog attacking him, he was not thinking of his backstop. I disagree with Doubleduty. His SA was fine and he initially takes steps before approach to the woman and he is aware to see the dog charging. He then appears to create distance before shooting the animal. Something had to be done with the animal. Now some here aren't pussies so maybe they would have gone hand to jaw with him or maybe deployed a taser, or ASP. Shooting a charging dog is not unheard of and I doubt outside policy. He violated a gun safety rule and I contend that many here would have done the same thing. All of which doesn't equate to him looking to violate her civil rights or to actually being a pussy. By all means, lock this guy up What do you think? 2 years? 10years? Maybe give him the max on a manslaughter charge?