{"id":371448,"date":"2026-06-23T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371448\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:17:09","slug":"readers-disagree-over-the-lapds-killing-of-a-family-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371448\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers disagree over the LAPD&#8217;s killing of a family dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: The article that appeared in Saturday\u2019s edition of the Los Angeles Times seemed to paint Jameson, the dog shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers, as a victim rather than an unrestrained animal (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-06-19\/lapd-killing-of-family-dog-amid-knicks-victory-sparks-outrage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018Justice for Jameson\u2019: LAPD killing of family dog amid Knicks win sparks outrage,\u201d<\/a> June 19). The officers exemplified a great deal of patience and good judgment when they several times requested that the dog\u2019s owner  secure the animal. Her response was \u201che\u2019s not aggressive\u201d and a failure to comply with the officers\u2019 reasonable requests.<\/p>\n<p>Most dog owners are reluctant to acknowledge their pet\u2019s propensity for aggressive behavior and, as in this case, refuse to accept the consequences of their inaction. This seemingly biased summary of what occurred makes me think that the writers had more feelings for Jameson than the plight of these well-intentioned officers who had every right to fear for their safety and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Barry S. Rubin, Beverly Hills<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>To the editor: The police shooting of a family\u2019s Bernadoodle is very disturbing. Like Labradoodles and Goldendoodles, this relatively new dog breed is known for its gentle, sweet and loving nature. The perfect family dog.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a cop shot one to death indicates to me that they should never have access to a firearm, and should definitely not be a cop. What a disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Stenlake, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: The article that appeared in Saturday\u2019s edition of the Los Angeles Times seemed to paint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[150519,14297,2072,61700,150521,147178,5686,150520,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49,63,2322,55286,1892,150522,150518],"class_list":["post-371448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-barry-s-rubin","tag-cop","tag-editor","tag-family-dog","tag-great-deal","tag-jameson","tag-killing","tag-knicks-win","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-officer","tag-patience","tag-reader","tag-reasonable-request","tag-unrestrained-animal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}