‘Get back, dude’: LAPD releases video of officers shooting dog in Winnetka with bean bag round

The Los Angeles Police Department says it volition analyse the shooting of a pit bull with a legume container circular by officers approaching a Winnetka location past week, pursuing the canine owner’s disapproval of the constabulary response,

LAPD released body-worn camera footage from some officers who went to the 6700 artifact of Limerick Avenue past Thursday aft a caller said they saw a pit bull chasing radical successful the neighborhood.

According to the footage released Sunday, erstwhile officers got determination the canine was connected its owner’s property. The officers spoke to a pistillate who was driving by who called police.

As the pistillate explained what she saw, an serviceman told her, “We’ll fig it out.” Then the different serviceman holding the legume container changeable weapon tin beryllium heard racking the weapon.

The footage showed what happened next: Both officers attack the driveway, and the canine pokes its caput retired from down a truck.

“There helium is,” 1 serviceman says. The different whistles.

As the canine starts to bark, 1 serviceman tells it, “Get back, dude.”

They proceed to approach, and the canine gets much aggressive. The officers locomotion guardant onto the spot arsenic they whistle astatine the canine and archer it to get back. As the officers locomotion adjacent to a motortruck parked successful the driveway, the canine barks and runs forward, the serviceman with the legume container shotgun fires, hitting the canine successful the head. The canine whelps and retreats.

That’s erstwhile the proprietor comes out. The officers outcry that helium needs to unafraid his dog.

The owner, Cory Lennon, told ABC7 that helium believed the officers acted inappropriately erstwhile they approached his property.

“They came up my driveway, guns drawn,” helium said, noting from his information camera footage helium could perceive an serviceman rack his limb portion inactive crossed the street.

“I consciousness similar they were hunting her. They didn’t adjacent springiness her a chance.”

The officers’ assemblage cameras amusement that the canine was not leashed and that the beforehand gross to the spot was unfastened erstwhile they got there.

But Lennon told reporters the officers didn’t spot his canine pursuit anyone. The assemblage camera footage seems to enactment that, showing the canine was connected the spot erstwhile the officers got there.

It’s not wide whether immoderate neighbors called constabulary astir the dog. The pistillate who called astir the canine told officers she didn’t unrecorded successful the neighborhood, according to the assemblage camera footage.

According to LAPD’s statement, the pistillate “informed the officers of a canine that aggressively chased down radical walking successful the area.”

LAPD said they launched an interior probe into the incident. All serviceman uses of force, including incidents erstwhile they usage less-lethal weapons similar legume container shotguns and different projectile launchers, are investigated by the section and taxable to reviews from the L.A. Police Commission.