I’m trusting the dog on this one. I hope there is a video of this incident. The odds of:
a) K-9 gets out of his enclosure
b) Decides to bite someone
c) Officer fires a shot at the dog
is most improbable. A Malinois will mess you up if it is going on the attack (think slightly smaller German Shepherd), so how was the officer able to get a single shot and seriously injure the K-9 without suffering serious injury himself?
Definitely weird.