Unwashed Mass....you hit the nail on the head!!!! Lol I wish their own statement could be used in this court of law. They cant have it both ways!! Either the dog is a dog or the dog is an officer.....either way there needs to be accountability!!!!!!!!!! If its a dog....than shoot his @#$. If its an officer....than retire him and hold the supervising officer responsible!! It cannot be an unpredictable dog who is respected and regarded as an officer....out of their own mouths!!!!

TPD considers K9's to be "police officers" so how they discipline the dog would be a "personnel matter".

From FOX23 on 3/30/2012 "A Tulsa police officer had to make a quick and difficult decision when an aggressive dog protecting his owner threatens an officer in an auto pedestrian accident on Friday. Tulsa Police say the officer used a baton to get the dog away from the victim, 48-year-old Gregory Charles, Sr., but when that didn’t work the officer shot and killed the pit bull. "Officers don't want to do it, they are not going to take the decision lightly but we don't expect our officers to be chew toys,” said TPD Officer Jason Willingham. The incident happened on I-244/U.S. 75 southbound when Charles walked into the path of traffic exiting, near Southwest Boulevard and was hit by a car. "Is it regrettable, of course, no one wants to kill an animal or kill someone's pet but in the situation human life is more important than the dog's life,” said Willingham. Officer Willingham said he’s had personal experience with a vicious dog. “I have peppered sprayed a dog and it has come at me and try to bite me and I was forced to shoot it,” said Willingham.

Maybe the boy was the murder .... jk

It is dangerous to have ANY dog in public without a leach, I have to leash my boxer when we go on a walk and I do it happily. This dog need to be retired or put to sleep and the handler needs to be reprimanded. Letting a dog loose like that is irresponsible and unacceptable. TPD needs to pay to medical expenses and therapy for that boy. What kind of officer just SITS there while a child is hurting.

Diane said the only reasonable thing on here because had that been a civillians dog they would have filled him with bullets or ordered he be put down but due to the fact he was a k-9 he gets a pat on the back had the parents defended their child and beaten or killed the k-9 they would be facing charges possibly for murder of an officer funny how the law works in its own way to protect and serve who it chooses arent we to keep our pets on leashes anyways they want to ban us from having pitbulls but yet german sherpards are just as vicious & the fact that no remorse or care was given to the victim is unjustifiable regardless who the search was for they had more then enough officers to send one to check on him no one should be debating or throwing insults he wasnt involved nor did he commit a crime one was commited the fact that none of you see that is absurd....

Any other dog involved in an unprovoked attack would be quarantined immediately. Was that done?

"Animals are unpredictable," said Willingham ... but the are dependable when they are sniffing for drugs?

The fact that it was neighbors who called for medical assistance -- and not police -- speaks volumes about their concern for the public.

German shepherd... German...Nazi...who knows?