He Called 911 About a Gun Pulled on Him. Police Shot His Dog, Moose.

Bradley Brock did what everyone is told to do. On November 15, 2021, at a gas station in Inkster, Michigan, a man pulled a gun on him — and Brock called 911.

When the responding officer arrived, Brock's dog Moose, a three-year-old mastiff, approached the officer with tail wagging. The officer backed away and fired multiple times.

Moose was taken to an emergency veterinarian and euthanized.

Brock had called the police because a stranger threatened his life. By the time the call was resolved, the armed stranger was not the one who had cost him something; the responding officer was. The threat Moose posed, as captured in the record, was a walk in the officer's direction with a wagging tail.

In March 2022, four months after the shooting, Brock filed a federal lawsuit, arguing that the killing of his dog violated the Fourth Amendment. Like nearly every dog owner in these cases, he had to go to federal court to get any process at all, because no process inside the system reached him on its own. The suit put before a judge the question that, as far as the public record shows, no one inside the Inkster Police Department ever publicly answered: why an officer fired multiple rounds at a dog whose recorded offense was approaching with a wagging tail.

Now consider the full accounting of consequences, because it is the most instructive part of this record.

Bradley Brock — the man who called for help — was cited for having his dog off-leash and fined $700. He lost his dog and paid the city $700.

The security guard who shared video of the shooting — the only reason the public saw what happened — was fired.

The officer who shot a tail-wagging mastiff multiple times was never publicly named. No discipline was reported.

That is the ledger, line by line: the victim fined, the witness fired, the shooter unnamed and untouched. Every consequence that flowed from the killing of Moose landed on someone other than the person who fired. The federal lawsuit is the only process still open, and it exists only because Brock is paying to pursue it.

Brock called 911 about a man with a gun. What the call cost him was his dog and $700. What it cost the officer, as far as the public record shows, was nothing.