The city of Loveland, Colorado, will pay $675,000 to end a lawsuit against a police officer for shooting a family’s dog—a record settlement for the police killing of a pet in the state, the family’s attorney says.
Wendy Love and Jay Hamm filed a civil rights lawsuit in 2021 accusing Loveland police officer Mat Grashorn of recklessly killing their 14-month-old dog, a Staffordshire terrier and boxer mix named Herkimer, in a 2019 incident. The lawsuit alleged that Grashorn’s shooting of Herkimer was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment and violated their constitutional rights.
Now Loveland has agreed to pay Love and Hamm, as well as create new recurring training requirements for officers on how to deal with dogs…