{"id":446039,"date":"2026-08-28T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:46:30","slug":"dog-shot-after-biting-lapd-officer-in-south-la-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446039\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog shot after biting LAPD officer in South LA \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dog was shot after biting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/lapd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Police Department<\/a> officer during a response Thursday to a domestic violence call at a South Los Angeles residence.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the home at about 9 a.m. They were standing in the street after handling the domestic violence report when they were approached by about three unrestrained dogs, Capt. Mike Bland said. <\/p>\n<p>One of the dogs bit an officer in the &#8220;lower extremities,&#8221; and the officer opened fire, Bland said. The owner eventually came outside to restrain the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD said the officer was hospitalized in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The dog who was shot was transported by Los Angeles Animal Services for treatment of its injuries. <\/p>\n<p>A use of force investigation into the shooting will be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/lapd-shoots-dog-canoga-park\/3904251\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June<\/a>, a dog was shot and killed after LAPD officers responded to a disturbance call at a Canoga Park apartment that turned out to be a woman celebrating the New York Knicks NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p>LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell vowed that a full investigation into that shooting. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she would seek a reevaluation of the LAPD&#8217;s policies on the use of force and pets following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/bodycam-video-lapd-canoga-park-dog-shooting\/3906223\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release of body-worn camera<\/a> footage of the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dog was shot after biting a Los Angeles Police Department officer during a response Thursday to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2113,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-446039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-animals","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}