I would bet that the K-9 will be sent for retraining. If it doesn’t work they’ll retire the dog.
It’s a good thing he wasn’t a pitbull, they would have
killed him and his entire family.
Not to mention some of the officers in this caper...This is way beyond embarrassing.
I'm thinking that all the human officers involved could use some retraining too.
Think about it. Officer #1, the K9 handler released his dog into a situation where another officer is doing what would predictably appear to the dog to be fleeing in the same direction that the dog is being sent to catch someone. Officer #2, the shoot-to-miss specialist, figures the smart thing to do is to shoot Officer Dog -- maybe it was smart or maybe it wasn't, we don't know enough about the circumstances to be sure (though I suspect that immediately lying face-down on the ground would have been safer and more effective) -- but we do know he missed, and we have a pretty good idea he didn't know his backstop when he took the shot (and the K9 handler may well have been in the general line of fire). With Officer Dog now predictably attacking the guy who shot at him, who he already thought was a criminal and is now sure is a criminal, Officer #1 figures the smart thing to do is to start attacking Officer #2, thus removing any trace of doubt from Officer Dog's mind that Officer #2 is a dangerous criminal who must be taken down.
Officers #3 and #4 come upon the scene of Officers #1 and #2 slugging it out and Officer Dog responding as he'd been trained to respond to someone slugging it out with his handler, and decide the smart thing to do is to pile onto the slugfest while Officer Dog is still unrestrained, figuring Officer Dog would . . . well I don't think their figuring process had even started, when they went ahead and tackled Officers #1 and #2, and once again, Officer Dog responded as he'd been trained to do to anyone attacking his handler.
I say Officer Dog deserves a nice vacation at a beach resort and lots of doggie biscuits, before coming back to do a refresher course to try to untangle the tremendous confusion that Officers #1, #2, #3, and #4 have planted in his little doggie mind.