Judge rules on San Jose police K-9 biting man for over 2 minutes

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A San Jose police K-9 bit a man for 2 minutes and 40 seconds, which a federal judge ruled constituted an excessive use of force, a court order shows. “The Court finds this intrusion severe,” U.S. District Judge Edward Davila wrote in a 37-page ruling filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Jose. “A K-9 attack of this duration, while the suspect lay wounded and nearly motionless, is without precedent.”

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