{"id":423959,"date":"2026-09-02T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423959\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:20:40","slug":"no-answers-from-police-state-on-fort-worth-woman-allegedly-attacked-by-k-9-outside-her-home-months-later-key-questions-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423959\/","title":{"rendered":"No answers from police, state on Fort Worth woman allegedly attacked by K-9 outside her home; months later, key questions remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open records request from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth police<\/a> produced nearly nine pages of black redaction for the case of bystander Regina Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, a mother and grandmother, says she is the person that police won&#8217;t acknowledge in a non-criminal injured person report from April 12 on Purington Avenue publicly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was literally about to be inside,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;It just chose me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Allen, she was trying to alert officers to an elderly neighbor&#8217;s mental state when a Fort Worth police K-9 attacked her. Before she could complete that mission, her arms went up in the air, and the video shows a dog taking her to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was screaming for help,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;The officers couldn&#8217;t even get him off. Even his handler was saying what they say to them, their commands, and he was not listening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/marvin.png#.png\" alt=\"marvin.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Thomas Fisher, joined their son and officers trying to break the dog&#8217;s grip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s laying there bleeding,&#8221; Fisher said, describing severe wounds to his wife&#8217;s arms.<\/p>\n<p>Allen remembers looking at the injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s stuff all over me that are supposed to be inside of me,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old was taken to the hospital with nine puncture wounds. She got 19 stitches, which made things worse. As soon as she left the hospital, Allen was back within days.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Blerim Elmazi says the family believes accountability begins with acknowledging what happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happens is wrong is wrong, mistakes are mistakes,&#8221; Elmazi said. &#8220;And we expect officers and cities who are in the wrong to just admit it, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth has been lawful but silent. The department has refused to confirm why they were in Allen&#8217;s neighborhood in the first place or share information about an arrest, if any.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, CBS News Texas received redactions and documents proving that video footage of the incident exists. The department denied a request to release the video to the public. Instead, it used what many law enforcement agencies shield behind Texas&#8217; Rule of Evidence to protect footage, documents, images, and other information from becoming public. Agencies send a lawful review to the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, which tends to rule in law enforcement&#8217;s favor even if the public has a right to know.<\/p>\n<p>In Allen&#8217;s case, not redacted was an officer&#8217;s report that says, &#8220;The K-9 broke free&#8221; and &#8220;The K-9 bit.&#8221; The victim is covered by black redactions on paper.<\/p>\n<p>In real life, Allen&#8217;s pain from that cannot be covered up by evidentiary privileges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw a flash of fur, and next thing I know I was on the ground,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An open records request from the Fort Worth police produced nearly nine pages of black redaction for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31201,116,118,117,2238],"class_list":["post-423959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dog-attack","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}