Cop Walks in Front Door, Shoots Family’s Dog, Lies to His Supervisor, Keeps His Job



A cop walks up to the front door of a family’s home. Nobody answers the door, so he just lets himself in and begins to look around. About a minute later, shots ring out from inside the house. He just shot the family dog. The husband was at work. The wife was out of town. The 4 kids were at school. It was just Zelda, the family’s beloved Belgian Malinois, being a good girl, doing her job protecting their home from intruders. Then the cop walks back outside.

Does he call the family to tell them what happened? No. He calls more cops and basically an army of police officers arrive at this home in this quiet neighborhood, and they begin to circle the wagons. They then proceed to go all through the family’s home, garage and backyard, for a period of about 40 minutes – all without even notifying this family, or obtaining their permission to do so. Oh, and also – without a warrant. Surely they made this right with the family? Apologized? Compensated them in some way? Surely they fired the officer and prosecuted him for unlawfully entering the family’s home and killing their dog?

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Details: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2026/01/06/cop-walks-in-familys-home-shoots-their-dog-then-lies-about-it/

Raw home surveillance footage: https://youtu.be/861MkCBBXAw
Raw Bodycam from one of the officers (not the shooter): https://youtu.be/JKIkQL9rUOk
Raw Bodycam from another officer (also not the shooter): https://youtu.be/G9lPbVDvH7Q
Raw home surveillance footage showing Paul Briggs leaving the home about an hour earlier: https://youtu.be/ogfn1SolQbY

Media Report: https://youtu.be/VWqcp3oEPXY?si=-3H3T5m0wsMXqWBe
Wake County, NC Sheriff’s Office: https://www.wake.gov/departments-government/sheriffs-office-willie-rowe-sheriff

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39 thoughts on “Cop Walks in Front Door, Shoots Family’s Dog, Lies to His Supervisor, Keeps His Job”

  1. This is what these dirty red coats do. They are enemies of this nation. We are a free people and the 2nd amendment was created to be able to fight back against this very type of Tyranny…When will America wake up and start to put together militias to fight back against this criminal overstep by these criminals? 🤔 🇺🇸

  2. A country where I don't understand how people like this man can become a cop, doesn't know the laws, shooting the family's dog, & no actions against this cop?? WTF? Americans would be happily surprised, seeing cops in Europe who doesn't even carry a gun, respect the citizens, the laws & would be thrown out from that job, faster than saying COP? Unbelievable how Americans can live with so called cops, behaving like this! Lying to the seargent & that person doesn't check the camera first. Law Shall be that every cop in Us must have their cameras on, at everytime, or loose your job!

  3. I’m extremely sorry and outraged to hear about the loss of the loyal, courageous family pet and the egregious violations of this family’s core constitutional rights

    Further, after watching the video, it’s obvious that the front door is closed since you clearly see the storm door opened and ajar (by the ‘officer’) then hear him knocking on it after having opened the storm door (plus you can hear he’s knocking on a solid frame door, not the plexiglass exterior)

    The ONLY silver lining in this tragedy is the fact (now that the civil rights lawyer is involved) the family is about to get a massive payday and that pathetic, Barney Fife a-hole is about to get it handed to him big-time

    I spent 25 years in law-enforcement and this makes me ashamed to tell anyone that

  4. This is beyond frustrating… heartbreaking is an understatement 😢… I pray this family gets some type of justice for this jackass taking away this family's protector and the children's best friend… I wouldn't stop calling and emailing that police department until something was done!!! I hope this family gets blessed with a great lawyer and sues all involved. If nothing is done by punishing these, INSANELY UNLAWFUL actions, then what stops this "officer" or any other trigger happy bad seeds, from just doing whatever they want? No body cam footage? Lies on several occasions to his superior and other officers. This can't be the first time these particular "bros in blue" have gathered together to get a story straight… in my opinion…. I pray this family gets some damn good representation to sue all involved…. rip Zelda ❤❤

  5. I’m so livid right now!!! Literally crying 😢 That poor dog! IDK, but she looked elderly to me …. They probably had her her whole entire life! I’d be sueing EVERYONE …. and I mean …. EVERYONE!!!!! Not that that’s going to bring Zelda back!! And I HIGHLY DOUBT that the dog “lunged” at him!!!!!

  6. So if killing a police dog is considered murder of a police officer, is killing a family’s dog the same as killing a family member? Also, make it illegal for cops to turn off body cameras.

  7. Who thought it was a good idea to give this guy a gun and secondly aren't they supposed to be training these individuals on said use of weapon oh and let's not forget he entered the home without permission

  8. This is so sad on many levels. That cop should not of been in their house first of all. He kills the family dog that was just protecting her home and lies about it. Does not lose his job or get in any trouble for breaking laws that he is supposed to enforce. The whole family is heart broken after the killing of their beloved dog and the police do nothing. Not even we was wrong we are sorry. At the very least they should buy them a new dog. That breed is not cheap which it won't make up for the lost of the dog but it would be better then nothing which is what they did. I am not a sue them kind of person but this family needs to sue and that cop should lose his job. If he lies about that what's to stop him from lying in other cases not trustworthy at all.

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