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What Happened in Canoga Park — and What the Law Gives You Now On Saturday night, June 13, 2026, you were celebrating. The New York Knicks had just won the NBA championship, and in your condominium on Jordan Avenue in Canoga Park, you were screaming with the kind of joy that comes from years of hoping. Jameson, your dog, was right there with you. He was wearing a Knicks jersey. He was part of the celebration. He was part of your family. Then someone called 911. They thought you were in trouble. The Los Angeles Police Department responded. And in the hallway outside your door, officers discharged their firearms and killed Jameson. The cellphone video captured what happened next. You, on your knees, screaming: "Oh my god! Oh my God! I cannot believe this is happening. We were just celebrating the Knicks. We were f------ celebrating the Knicks." A photo taken moments before the shooting shows Jameson in his Knicks shirt, alive. A memorial is now growing in the hallway where neighbors watched him die. We are sorry this happened to your family. Jameson was not "property" in the way that word usually means. He was a member of your household — fed, walked, dressed in a Knicks jersey, loved. The way he died, in a hallway, during a celebration, in front of you, is something California law was built to address, even if the law has not always caught up to what a dog means to a family. This…