MOUNT OLIVE -- It was just after 7 p.m. Thursday on West Main Street, a typically quiet stretch in Mount Olive.

Sharon Kulers heard her Dalmatian barking outside, so she made her way to the back yard.
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Durham, a 2-year-old 45-lb. Labrador retriever.

She saw a Mount Olive Police Department cruiser pull up to the house behind hers.

Then she noticed the shotgun in one of the officer's hands, aimed at her neighbor's 45-pound Labrador retriever.

"I said, 'Please don't shoot that dog. He won't hurt you,'" Mrs. Kulers said.

The officer looked at her, then back at the dog.

A shot rang out -- then, another.

"I said, 'Why did you have to do that? You didn't have to do that,'" Mrs. Kulers said. "He said, 'It showed its teeth.' He said, 'We have a right to do this.'"
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I'm sick and tired of certain police officers who seem to think they can react with deadly force whenever they feel the least bit threatened, and the system that lets them get away with it.

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