England riots: Rioters target police dog

Several police dogs suffered injuries during the rioting; some of the injuries were 'accidential;' e.g., the dogs' paws were cut up when they walked with unprotected paws on large amounts of broken glass, some were inflicted when the rioters targeted the dogs. One attack on a dog that really hit a sore nerve in the UK for its cruelty was reported by the Daily Mail. I hold the police responsible to some extent because once the police realized they were taking the dogs into a veritable war zone without giving them protective gear, they should have stopped using the dogs.