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The Columbus police officer shoots dogs fatally in North Linden

The Columbus police officer shoots dogs fatally in North Linden

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  • A police officer from Columbus fatally shot a dog who attacks a woman and her dog on a leash.
  • Elaine Bryant, police chief of Columbus, said that the official had acted to protect the woman and her dog.
  • The incident triggered the debate on social media about the use of violence by the official.

Some residents were outraged on social media after the police from Columbus Body Camera released film material that showed an officer who killed a woman and her linen dog in North Linden on Sunday, May 4th, who attacked a pit bull outside of the line.

The officials reacted shortly before 3:30 p.m. to the Arlington Avenue area and the Bremen Street and spoke to a woman who spanned her dog on a leash. Seconds after the officers had talked to the woman, an unleashed brown and white Pitbull, confronted and begins to attack the woman's dog.

The Bodycam video shows how the dogs fight and growl while the woman screams and tries to separate her. One of the officers gets out of his cruiser and aims at the Pitbull with his weapon while telling the woman that she should pull out of the fire line, the video shows.

The officer then shoots the pit bull twice. The woman and her linen dog seem to be intact when she pulls away from the scene by her dog called “Kevin”.

Warning: This video contains graphic content

In a video posted on Facebook, the owner of the Pit Bull becomes crying and asks her with the officials to bring her the wounded dog to the vet to receive medical help. The officer refuses and tells her that the dog is “under the jurisdiction” of the animal care and control of Franklin County and that they have to take the dog. The dog can be seen in the grass while it is blood.

“My dog ​​literally dies,” says the woman to the officer. “He still lives, let me bring him to the vet.” The woman also repeatedly tells the officials that the dog is not aggressive. Another woman tells the officials that “dogs run loosely in the neighborhood every day”. Other people on site continue to ask the officials what led to the shootout, and when the dog tried to attack an officer.

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Over two dozen people commented on the woman's Facebook video, with some agreed with the actions of the officer and solved the dog owner for their dog, while others asked whether the officer had to apply this level of violence or whether pepper spray or a Taser device had worked to subject the dog.

In an explanation that was published one day after the incident, the police chief of Columbus, Elaine Bryant, the official who shot the Pitbull said this to protect both the linen dog and its owner from further damage. Bryant also said that the guidelines for the police department would give an internal administrative investigation to “ensure that all reasonable guidelines and procedures were met”.

“We understand that every incident in which the use of violence is used, especially with animals, can be annoying for the community. Our thoughts are with all those affected,” said Bryant.

Reporter Shahid Meighan can be reached smeighan@dispatch.comat Shahidmeighan on Xand with shahidthereporter.dispatch.com On bluesky.

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