Cop sics untrained dog on handcuffed man, dog mauls man

[Wilfire]

The Washington Standard
2017-07-15

San Diego, CA — An extremely graphic and disturbing video was uploaded to Facebook this week showing San Diego police officers allowing a K9 to maul a handcuffed man.

The horrifying video begins as the man is on the ground in handcuffs. Instead of the officers attempting to get the dog off the man, two of them hold him down as the K9 tears into his forearm.

No commands to get the K9 to release are given and there is absolutely no reason to even have the dog near him.

Exactly why police were apprehending the man remains unclear as The Free Thought Project’s calls to the San Diego police department have not been returned. However, it doesn’t matter what the man did prior to being mauled by the K9 as he was in handcuffs, face down on the ground, and posed absolutely no threat to anyone.

The video, taken and uploaded by Facebook user Angel Nunez, was posted with the following description.

So today at work I was able to capture this go down. This K-9 officer had no control of his K-9. There is something definitely wrong with this picture. The officer doesn’t seem to have the proper training. Also that dog is not we’ll trained……

Nunez also posted another video that showed a bit of what happened prior to the man being put into handcuffs.

In the brief first video, the man clearly appears to have some mental issues. He is unarmed, wearing nothing but shorts, and walking in the street, when the officer unleashes the dog on him.

“Show me your hands! Show me your hands!” screams the officer as his K9 brings the man to the ground.

Amazingly enough, the man manages to show one hand as the K9 tears into his wrist.

“Snap clip I captured……clearly you hear the Officer scream a command in a distinctive language at the K-9. why was the same command not giving to release the suspect????” Nunez wrote to Facebook.

Nunez brings up a good point. the officer was surely able to command his dog to attack, however, he was entirely inept at getting him to stop.

As the next video begins, the man is already subdued, laying on the ground and, for no good reason, the dog is biting his arm.

His screams of agony are hard to bear.

“I’m comfortable. I’m comfortable,” the shirtless, shoeless man repeated over and over as the cop refused to give the dog the release command.

The scene is so horrifying that onlookers begin yelling at the officers to get their K9 under control. Instead of helping to remove the K9 from the man’s arm, the other officers held him down and yelled at the witnesses to “get back!”

If and when the Free Thought Project hears back from the San Diego Police Department, we will update this story as necessary.

WARNING: Extremely graphic video.

As TFTP has reported before, the San Diego police department has a brutal history involving their K9s.

A gruesome body cam was released in December showing cops needlessly and sadistically sic a K9 on an unarmed naked man who posed absolutely zero threat to the half-dozen cops who had him completely surrounded.

The incident happened in August of 2015, however, the body camera footage was kept secret for over a year. If you have the strength to watch the entire video, you will know exactly why it was kept a secret.

At 8:30 that August morning, police received a phone call about a naked man walking through a canyon. This man had not attempted to harm anyone and the only ‘crime’ he’d committed when police arrived was to simply be naked.

The man, a 25-year-old businessman who was in San Diego for a convention, admitted that he ended up naked in the canyon after a particularly hard night of partying. However, when seeing how police reacted upon confronting the man, you would think he was a serial child murderer.

What these two videos illustrate is the dire lack of training within the San Diego police department. These videos are evidence enough that something needs to happen immediately.

http://www.patroldog.net/disturbing-...ears-into-him/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQR4...&feature=share

[TITAN308]

1. Wilfire thread, check
2. Cop thread, check
3. Ill have a coke

[zhero]

he wasn't handcuffed when the dog was sicced on him, the problem was the dog didn't want to let go after he was cuffed.

[Very Tired]

Obviously that dog was racist. Dogs have been shot for less. Kudos to that guy for holding that position while a dog ate his arm.

[kail]

Either the man tasted good to the dog, or his training went wrong somewhere. From what I could see of the video, the dog really wanted to bite that man's arm and would not release it's grip despite the cop's efforts.

[Celista]

Either the man tasted good to the dog, or his training went wrong somewhere.

If the dog did not release immediately upon the release command, then yes something went wrong somewhere.

[XangXu]

Your people are out of control...

[Independent voter]

The dog handler cop was embarrassed. Yanking on the dog when the dog was clamped onto the man's arm wasn't helpful, if the handler was calm he would've waited until the dog let go.

Meh, nobody died, minor injury.

[Wyrt]

And people wonder why BLM exists.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

And people wonder they BLM exists.

because dogs hate black people?

[kail]

Well, just from reading the article in the OP, it seems that the officer did not give the command for the dog to release. If that's the case, the dog was doing as was told and it's training didn't go wrong.

Looking at the video, the cop was clearly trying to pry the dog off the man's arm. Maybe that specific officer was not the dog's partner. Maybe something else clicked with the dog that doesn't normally happen.

The bottom line here: Something went wrong. That man may not be mentally fit, but he has a good case if he wanted to try a lawsuit.

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And people wonder they BLM exists.

??? K9 dogs are racist now? If there was proof that the dog was trained to target blacks, then maybe your post would make sense.

[Wyrt]

??? K9 dogs are racist now? If there was proof that the dog was trained to target blacks, then maybe your post would make sense.

Why was the dog biting him in the first place?

[Dug]

The video doesn't show if he gave the command to release before so maybe it failed... but still... you keep giving the command not just jerk the dogs head around as the dog is chomped on the dudes arm. Just making the injury far, far worse.

Faulty training somewhere and the dog should be retired if it can't follow the commands it was taught.

[Independent voter]

Here's the story from the San Diego Tribune, a real newspaper.

The man could be heard yelling "Uncomfortable!" lol




Video of San Diego police dog biting man in handcuffs creates stir

video that shows a San Diego police canine biting and shaking a man in handcuffs while he was face down in a street Sunday has gained attention on social media.

On Wednesday, police officials said the officers and the dog adhered to the department’s policy.

“While these videos can be graphic in nature to view, keep in mind our canines are extremely effective at deescalating situations and preventing elevated levels of force to take people into custody,” San Diego police Lt. Scott Wahl said.

The footage, posted by Facebook user Angel Nuñez, shows the dog latched on to the man’s arm for at least 30 seconds while one officer works to unlatch the animal’s jaw. Two other officers hold down the man’s legs.

The man can be heard repeatedly screaming and shouting, “Uncomfortable!”

To view the video below, click the “Watch on Faceook” button. Warning — it is graphic.


Much of the incident wasn’t captured on video, San Diego police Lt. Scott Wahl said.

The canine officer was sent to A street near Sixth Avenue about 4 p.m. Sunday after a number of people called 911 about a man behaving erratically.

Wahl said witnesses told police the man was running in and out of traffic, jumping on cars, trying to pull stop signs from the ground and challenging passersby to fight.

He is also accused of punching a cab driver and trying to steal a motorcycle.

When the officer first approached, the man started moving toward him and threatening to fight. The officer repeatedly told the man to stop or the dog would be released.

A second video, also posted by Nuñez, appears to show the moments leading up to the dog bite. A shirtless man can be seen in the middle of a busy downtown street shouting and jerking his body toward an officer holding the canine close on a leash.

When the dog first clamps down, the man can be heard saying, “OK, OK, OK!”

He was eventually arrested on suspicion of charges that include robbery, battery and being under the influence of drugs.


A number of commenters questioned whether the canine and its handler had adhered to department policy. The lieutenant said they both did what they were trained to do, and the video clearly shows that.

Police dogs are taught to bite and hold. This is meant to ensure that the canine does not repeatedly bite a person, which could cause further damage, Wahl said.

The dogs also aren’t trained to release on a verbal command. Instead, officers are taught to apply pressure to release the canine’s jaw, to ensure they’re always in control. It’s also done to lessen the chances of a second bite.

That technique can take time, and it’s not done until the suspect is in handcuffs.

“Sometimes it takes a bit to get into the right position,” Wahl said. “It’s not a perfect, sterile environment where you push a button and it happens.”

The San Diego department also stressed that canine bites are relatively rare. During the first six months of 2017, the canine unit has responded to more than 8,200 calls for service. Bites only occurred during 18 of those.

“We want to deter people from engaging in violent and assaultive behaviors,” the lieutenant said. “Most of the time, merely a police dog’s presence helps.”

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Why was the dog biting him in the first place?

"The canine officer was sent to A street near Sixth Avenue about 4 p.m. Sunday after a number of people called 911 about a man behaving erratically.

Wahl said witnesses told police the man was running in and out of traffic, jumping on cars, trying to pull stop signs from the ground and challenging passersby to fight.

He is also accused of punching a cab driver and trying to steal a motorcycle.

When the officer first approached, the man started moving toward him and threatening to fight. The officer repeatedly told the man to stop or the dog would be released."

because the guy was on drugs or drunk?

[ParanoiD84]

Well the dog did nothing wrong if there was no command to let go, good boy.

[Deleted]

How do you even sic an untrained dog on anyone? If it was not trained, why and how was it ordered to engage? There's a few important plot holes here.

[The Offbeat]

How do you even sic an untrained dog on anyone? If it was not trained, why and how was it ordered to engage? There's a few important plot holes here.

I'mma guess you're trolling, because you can't be dumb enough to overlook that you can train a dog to attack just fine, but mess up the training on the release command :3

[Deleted]

I'mma guess you're trolling, because you can't be dumb enough to overlook that you can train a dog to attack just fine, but mess up the training on the release command :3

Go back to hitting yourself on the head with a spade. That's not a trained dog, that's an abused animal looking for something to victimize.

Trained to attack but not to stop lol sure. "Trained".

[Sermistalot]

Do we know the background history of the subject that got subdued?
There simply isn't enough information in the initial article to make a fair analysis of the entire situation.