Kind of a mixed emotion thing for you. You hate pitbulls and you hate the police. you went 50/50 today
Well, it was an interesting story, I also don't believe in citizens owning guns. I do feel sorry for the old guy who was killed though. First he encountered an angry pitbull, and if indeed it was attacking, I can understand the heightened state the old guy would have been in, it is a primal thing, he would have had a massive adrenaline dump that would have stayed with him after he shot the pitbull, it's not something that is easily controlled, when put in a real fearful state, you begin to see more things than usual as a threat. And unfortunately for him, his fearful state then snowballed onto the policeman who entered the same fearful state and then acted on what his training is under such circumstances, which is to shoot to kill.
Of course, at the end of all this, I blame society for not doing anything about the dangerous dog situation, apparently neighbours had complained about these pitbulls straying through the neighbourhood for weeks, and as usual, animal control did fuck all, and now an old man is dead. And by all accounts he appears to have been a decent citizen. Just a sad sad story.