It's seem to me like they trying to make an example of this guy because once he stopped and they felt he was resisting they could have used pepper spray are stun gun. They allowed the dog to continue to bite and rip on this guy's flesh. They like ten times this guy size shaking my head on this shit.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
the dogs used for this sort of thing bite and hold. it isn't like a pet biting with its canines or a pit bull biting and thrashing. the dogs are bred and trained to bite with their molars. the end result is a very hard but firm bite that causes less damage than you would think. this is why dogs are typically trained to target certain muscle groups that can take a bite without severe damage. this is why dogs typically bite upper arms, arm pit/chest area, thighs or calves.
I don't disagree with that and I'm not blaming the dog it is the people in question here, the dog is a trained weapon just like the officers gun, they have complete control and it seems that they kept going when they simply could have ended it and cuffed the guy after all you can hear them say he was intoxicated that means he was not in his right mind normal commands to not resist went in one hear and out the other, it still there duty to protect and not injury this man just because his infraction gave them the opportunity to do so.
I mostly agree, though I'll add that a trained dog is never completely under control. A dog is still a thinking, breathing, decision making animal that seeks to satisfy itself... slave to the instincts just as we humans are. For a variety of reasons, once a dog is deployed it will not be removed until you are cuffed and done resisting. First, a dog that lets go and re-bites is the same as a cop who tazes someone after they are subdued... though the dog is just excercising its desire to bite the bad guy. Second, a dog biting the bad guy is NOT a dog biting an assisting officer. In all the excitement of a violent arrest, its not uncommon at all for a dog to bite another officer running up or even redirecting onto the handler. For that reason, some dogs are not even taught to release and must be forcibly removed from a person.
I agree that if he was purely guilty of a bicycle light infraction the use of the dog was not needed, but I also think the dog got away from the handler prematurely b/c of the late command. That being said, it can be argued if the dude just did as asked the dog wouldn't have come out the car anyway.
But again, getting bitten by a trained dog isn't all that bad