A police officer shot and killed a dog after it chomped on the cop\u2019s leg this morning in Queens, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The cop was responding to a call about unleashed dogs<\/a> chasing residents near 114th Rd. and 155th St. in Cambria Heights<\/a> just before 8 a.m. The officer was trying to corral two unleashed dogs when a third canine<\/a> snuck up from behind and bit the cop in the leg, prompting the officer to shoot it, according to police.<\/p>\n The police officer was taken in stable condition to Jamaica Hospital and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n The dog died at the scene.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what breed the dogs were, what the officer\u2019s gender is or how many shots were fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer shot and killed a dog after it chomped on the cop\u2019s leg this morning in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[19034,2703,1958,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-31323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-cambria-heights","tag-cop","tag-dog","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}