Posted on 02/23/2022 5:03:57 PM PST by Cecily
BRENTWOOD, Calif. - WARNING: Viewer discretion advised. This story has disturbing visual elements.
A woman had her scalp torn off by a Brentwood police dog after she shoplifted thousands of dollars from a nearby mall, video obtained by KTVU shows, raising serious questions about when and why K-9 units are deployed.
Talmika Bates, then 24, is seen in the video provided by her lawyers screaming and wailing in pain. The skin on top of her head was ripped off exposing blood and bone.
"Help me! The dog is biting me," she screams. "My whole brain is bleeding!"
The police officer in the video responds: "We're going to help you…but you shouldn't run from the police."
Bates talked about her painful recovery in an interview with KTVU on Wednesday.
"I really thought I was going to die," she said. "I really didn’t think that I was going to be able to tell this story and really explain to noboody. It’s just traumatizing. It's just sad."
She said she was taken directly to jail after doctors sewed her scalp back on at John Muir hospital in Walnut Creek. She said her hair still doesn't grow around her wounds.
"I feel ugly," she said. "I get miserable I get depressed. I'm not happy with myself. I don’t even feel cute."
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Nevermind I was thinking so cal
She’s not happy with herself because of the way she looks, not because she was stealing from others.
Next time maybe she should consider making better life choices.
This will be the only punishment she gets.
Hope the dog doesn’t pick something up from the blood.
Hope she doesn’t cash in on her “incident”.
Poor dog is gonna need a whole slab of bacon, 3 mcdonalds vanilla cones and about a half gallon of water to get the grease/ taste out of his mouth. Maybe a rabies booster shot too.
All you clowns on here cheering on the police mutt for mauling somebody for taking crap from a store remember the RCMP pigs in Canada. They will allow their mutts to do the same to you if you, DO INDEED, have the guts to stand up for freedom.
Surprised she didn’t have a wig or weave.
That would make a Comanche grin.
The wealthy are now starting to get upset in Los Angeles, so this re-run of the 1970s and 1980s will quickly come to an end, as we see here.
Perhaps she will “turn her life around “ with any settlement. I wonder what the odds are she will become a productive member of society ?
I agree with you. There is way too much cheering for police brutality.
As it is, your apparent logic that if ANYONE has a negative police interaction (even be of their own making) we should be upset because tomorrow it could be you. I have no plans to shoplift thousands of dollars of “crap” from someone else’s store, so I don’t expect to have this problem. Amazing how that works, eh?
Go pass out flowers and hugs to the criminal elements then.
I doubt any liberals in Brentwood are in sympathy with this woman since they are nervous now about home invasions and robberies. They will criticize the police on your behalf only if you stay out of their nice neighborhoods.
I’ll bet that the part where the police tell her to come out with her hands up (probably repeatedly) or they would send in the dog is purposely being left out by her lawyer.
Heck, black women wearing wigs is a common thing.
Exactly my point, which is that opposing liberals has to re-learned, over and over again. Bites.
She stole thousands of dollars in merchandise. She is a criminal and I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that she has a rap sheet going beck many years. There is no comparison to her and the peaceful truckers in Canada.
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