Here is one now:
Posted on 02/26/2022 4:38:49 AM PST by Morgana
A California woman has sued police in the Bay Area for allegedly using excessive force after part of her scalp was ripped off by a K-9 that mauled her 'for several minutes' until an officer had to physically remove its jaw from her head, following a robbery at an Ulta beauty shop.
Talmika Bates, 26, claims she was traumatized by a German Shepherd named Marco after it went after her and chewed on her scalp during a shoplifting arrest on February 10, 2020, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Bates, who was 24 at the time of the incident, was on the lam after she robbed about $10,000 worth of cosmetic products from an Ulta Beauty Supply store, along with two other women. The suspects fled the scene by car and ran out of the vehicle after police had chased and attempted to stop them.
Brentwood Police Officer Ryan Rezentes had to pull the police dog away from Bates' head after it didn't obey commands at least twice, according to reports.
The moment was recorded by officers' body-worn cameras and released by Bates' attorneys. In the footage, Bates can be seen hiding in a field among some bushes before police respond to her screaming after they unleashed a K-9 to find her.
After finding her and biting her head, Marco finally lets go and Bates was assisted by officers to get out of the bushes. Her skull was partially red as parts of it no longer had any scalp on it and her hair was also torn off.
'My whole brain is bleeding,' a shocked Bates says in the graphic video.
The lawsuit cites Rezentes and other officers from the incident as responsible for not warning Bates of the K-9 being unleashed to find her in the bushes.
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Used to be HairOfTheDog but it looks like she moved on 15 or so years ago.
I miss her.
that had to hesitate, they couldn’t see her in the bushes and had no idea if she was armed. If they had simple gone in at first and she had been armed, they could be dead.
I honestly think the police were extremely kind to her.
she most likely had a weave and the dogs teeth got stuck in it and as it tried to pull free it pulled her real hair out.
Pro tip: don’t hide in the bushes with your stolen goods while the cops and K-9 are ordering you to come out. All the money in the world is not going to make things better for this criminal, who is now going to steal from the taxpayer.
Here is one now:
I bought a small container of eye shadow, about the size of a quarter coin, at that place and it cost $9. Wouldn't take much volume of $12 lipsticks, $15 compacts, etc. to rack up quite a haul to resell on eBay or in her neighborhood.
These brazen thieves come in with a sack and sweep whole counters full into the bag and sashay out the door, since the security guards aren't armed and the clerks aren't allowed to apprehend them.
Once when I was in a fabric store, I saw a woman (hiding in the back section) lift her burka, wrap an entire bolt of expensive fabric around her midsection, drop the burka over it and walk out. Guard couldn't do a thing.
I feel bad for the dog.
Probably had to lick his butt along time t get rid of that taste.
yes, I have one beside me at the moment. She is to the large end of the spectrum at 70 pounds.
They are tremendous athletes, mine is slowing down, though at 11 years old. When she was 3 years old, she could clock almost 40mph and jump over my shoulder while playing. The one pictured in the story is, however a german shepherd.
I've posted in the past that if stores really wanted to prevent shoplifting, they'd keep a German Shepherd by the exit doors.
The criminal type generally have a fear of dogs and will often abandon a planned crime in order to avoid them.
This is also why people put "Beware of Dog" signs in front of their houses, even though they may not even have a dog.
Oh, sorry—apparently the image source labeled it Malinois. I was looking for a gif I had on an old computuer of a Mali jumping over a police car and taking down a trainer, who was dressed in padded gear head to toe. Wish I could have found that one.
“Tamika?”
Dat dog be raciss, trained to chew nappy doggy toys.....
“I feel bad for the dog.
Probably had to lick his butt along time t get rid of that taste.”
I was thinking the same thing. The taste of that yacky tacky weave in the poor dog’s mouth YUCK!
“Nothing a few weaves and some AfroSheen won’t take care of.”
How about Gorilla Glue? Remember that girl? It would work here won’t it?
“Remember that girl? “
Yes I do! She’d probably be up for it.
meat head...
If I recall correctly, the bite force of a German Shepherd is about 600 lbs psi.
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