Owner of dog shot by police says he wasn’t ‘vicious,’ SLCPD says officers followed protocol

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SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — On Sunday, March 23, a dog died after biting a police officer and being shot . About a week later, Karen Baldwin is saying her dog, Sinatra, was “not a vicious dog.”

Police were called to a convenience store in Salt Lake City around 3 a.m. that Sunday after receiving reports of trespassers. During that incident, Sinatra bit an officer and was later shot at several times after officers commanded for Baldwin and others to gain control of the dog…

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