Graphic body cam footage released on Thursday shows a Minneapolis police officer shooting two dogs as they approach him in a back yard, CBS Minnesota reports.
The officer, identified as Michael Mays, entered the property in response to a false security alarm on July 8, according to the police report. As the first dog approached, it stopped short of the officer, but then began to move toward him again. Mays shot the dog, hitting it in the jaw. When the second dog emerged and ran toward him, the officer shot it several times in the body.
Both dogs survived, but are expected to require extensive treatment.
“I dispatched both of them,” the officer reported right after the shooting.
Mays then climbed the fence and went around the house to speak to the teenager who tripped the alarm. Mays apologized to the sobbing teenager.
“I don’t like shooting dogs, I love dogs,” he said.
