Warning: This article contains images of a man being shot by police and then bitten and dragged by a police dog.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The shooting of a man by Grand Rapids police last month has left his family with unanswered questions, especially after the department declined to release body camera video.
But an expert in police tactics who reviewed doorbell camera video obtained by Target 8 said he believes the shooting was justified. He said he also believes police were justified when they used a police dog to bite and drag the injured man, Xzavion Troutman, before he was arrested.
Man shot by GRPD had recently been discharged from psych unit after stabbing himself
New Ring camera video provided to Target 8 by the family shows what happened after Troutman was shot and injured by police. Officers tried for a little more than two minutes to get him to respond after he fell face down in the grass outside his brother’s home on the city’s West Side. They got no response. Then they brought out the police dog on a leash…