Sunday, a San Francisco police officer fatally shot a family’s dog after being bitten.
Two officers had arrived at the home in response to a 911 call. The call had been made accidentally by a child playing with the phone, but they did not know that. When they arrived, the dog, Zoey, bit one of the officers on the hand.
“She growled and I’m like ‘no, no, no.’ He starts shooting, boom, boom, boom and when he got done shooting, he shot like six times, he ended up right here,” one man said.
“Six shots, for a dog? I mean, what can you say?” Jeffrey Stancil said.
The San Francisco police say that the officer only shot the dog in an attempt to prevent further injuries. The officer who had been bitten was taken to the hospital to be treated for the bites. But the family is considering legal action after the loss of their beloved pet.
“I understand that they were doing their job. That’s understandable, but the fact that they didn’t give us a chance to put her in safety, you know, and we did say ‘stop, we’ll get her,’ they didn’t give us the chance,” Madonna Stancil said.
