Originally Posted by MIS

You have to take into account, there were more than one cop at the scene. Something happened that made the cops kill the puppies. What happened? No one knows for sure. But you can be confident if the cops did not have to shoot the puppies, they would not have done so. They were pushed to do it and there are at least a dozen scenarios I can think of which prompts cops to shoot a dog.

That puppy that was said "hiding under the table" could have been ready to attack the cops. Cops are not trained to combat animals, specially pit bulls.