QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you think the shooting of a dog by a Sturgeon police officer was justified?

STURGEON, Mo. (KMIZ)

ABC 17 News obtained bodycam footage that showed a Sturgeon police officer shoot and kill a 13-pound dog on Sunday.

A total of three minutes, six seconds occurs in the video from when the officer first initially gets close to the animal and the first shot being fired.

The City of Sturgeon wrote on its social media that “The City believes that the officer acted within his authority based on the information available to him at the time to protect against possible injury to citizens from what appeared to be an injured, sick, and abandoned dog.”

In the video, the officer makes several attempts to capture the dog that were unsuccessful. The dog does not bite the officer in the video and does not growl at the officer.

Now that the footage has been seen, do you think the officer’s actions were justified?

Let us know in the poll and in the comments.