Conduct Unbecoming

From The Sacramento Bee:

BIXBY, Okla. (AP) - A police officer who shot a family's tethered dog while investigating a burglar alarm was fired Wednesday for making an obscene gesture to television news crews during a class on assessing canine threats.

Officer Cory Forister denied making the gesture intentionally but was fired for conduct unbecoming an officer, police Chief Anthony Stephens said.

Gosh, and I thought shooting a tethered dog was conduct unbecoming an officer. Just goes to show that in any job you can get away with some things and not others.