…and open the blinds to discover that a cop had just shut a dog. Something like five times. Then more cops showed up, and then some neighbors, and then they left, and then an Animal Control person came to body-bag the dog, and then they all left. And before you ask; this is a calm, middle-class town house development filled with respectable two-parent families who have largely moved here in order to get away from the excitement that is Southeast DC. So, no, gunplay is not common here.
Note that I have no idea whether the dog had it coming.
Moe Lane
PS: I did not take pictures. Maryland cops can get funny about that, and frankly it wasn’t my dog.