San Francisco police officers shot a man and his dog on Sunday afternoon near Union Square, the police department said in a statement.
This came after officers were “flagged down by a dog bite victim,” after a “large off leashed dog bit the victim unprovoked.”
Officers responded to Market and O’Farrell streets at 4:27 p.m., the department said.
The police department said the canine “continued showing aggression towards others in the area,” and the police shot both while officers tried to arrest the man and “secure” his dog.
The dog, the department added, “fled from the area, and then returned to the scene and bit one of the responding officers.”
The shooting victim was treated by paramedics at the scene and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, the department said. Animal Care and Control took the dog into its custody.
The officer bit by the dog suffered minor injuries and was treated on site, the department said. The initial dog-bite victim took himself to the hospital, the department said.
The shooting is being investigated by several city agencies, including the district attorney’s office, the San Francisco Police Department’s investigative division and its internal affairs division, and the Department of Police Accountability.
As with every police shooting in San Francisco, the department will hold a public town hall within 10 days to release more information.
I’m surprised there aren’t more biting incidents on sidewalks and on MUNI. It’s really frightening to see the number of large, potentially aggressive dogs being walked on Market and Mission Streets that are barely being constrained by (often) thick rope leashes and that lunge at passing dogs. Y’know the types that look like those cartoon monsters with the spiked collars. And unleashed dogs are regular passengers on MUNI (no escape there for passengers between stops!) — sometimes wandering the aisle or occupying a seat (unpaid, of course). And the little cuties, lying in the aisle that could be inadvertently stepped on or causing a senior to lose balance if they try to avoid stepping on them.
It’s annoying, but I’ve seen Pit bulls, as well as other large ass dogs, sitting in seats on the Muni bus, like they paid the fare.I asked the owner of a husky,{That’s breed in the article.}, to let me sit in the seat,he looked at the dog, snapped his fingers, and the dog, went under the seat.
Thanks for reporting .
What is wrong with pet owners who allow there dogs to not be on leashes and kept under control by the owners .
Pitbulls are so last year .
Very ghetto and dangerous .
The maturity level ability for most who have animals and who walk around like thugs or are homeless is evidence of the wrong that is happening here .
If a person cannot take care of themselves and is on the street , then they surely should not be having an animal .
Really sad and tired of the scene here where persons think owning a dangerous dog like a pitbull is considered ok .
Remember in the past , even in Pac Heights the dog owner was sent to jail since she could not control her dog and it killed someone .
Waiting for that to happen again unless this city gets common sense and does something about the addicts and homeless who let their dogs run around without leashes .
It is animal cruelty what I see on the streets .
Get it together sf .
Amen! Judge Judy, who rags on Pit bulls and their owners all the time,states that insurance companies will not give homeowners insurance if there is a Pit, on the property among,a list of other breeds. The new breed, for crack heads, and the people that love them is-Corso Cane, a member of the Mastiff breed, and that was the breed that killed that woman, in Pacific heights. My question is where do the people, get the money to feed these dogs?
Good thing it wasn’t a cat. That would have upset people.
Progressive rankings of animals:
Cats
Other cats
Cartoon cats
Dogs
Illegal immigrants
Other human beings
Aggressive dogs have aggressive owners.
Lock both of them up.