I can't understand how this could happen, if the dog was wearing a vest that was marked for a K-9 Unit (which I assume they all do). Thank goodness he survived.
Blue-on-blue shootings are tragic (and that's an understatement), but they happen.
In high-stress situations, tunnel-vision sets in pretty quick.
From what I can gather from the article, the dog was loose and unaccompanied (according to the article), and bearing down on the LEOs. They were amped up in chase mode (the amount of adrenaline in that situation is pretty unbelievable until you've been there), they weren't able to identify the dog as one of their own, and they fired for their own safety.
I can see how it happened. The officer reacted when the large aggressive dog charged him.
It has a bit of Three Stooges air about it with the chasing the suspect down--escaping dog--shooting (two for one)--and biting going on.
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Police K-9 mistakenly shot by fellow officer
#202776 - 07/25/2008 10:43 AM 
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