A Brentwood police K-9 bit a woman in the head as she hid in an attic crawlspace one year before the same dog ripped the scalp off a shoplifter hiding in the bushes.
found that law enforcement agencies often use dogs on people who are unarmed with little accountability.
Pictures of Niederer’s wounds show bloody punctures on her hands and arms along with a large jagged gash on the top of her head that doctors later stitched closed. In the report, Rezentes said that when he came upon Marco and Niederer inside the crawlspace, he witnessed the dog biting the woman’s hand and could see blood on her head, which he "believed was from striking it on a beam or from an exposed nail from the roof."
Neither the Brentwood Police Department, nor the city manager's office immediately responded to request for comment. Rezentes wrote that when he came to the scene, he learned that Niederer had been in a fight with her significant other, who was moving out. Niederer had threatened her girlfriend and used a folding table to push her out of the garage, striking her in the shin, the officer wrote.WARNING:Since she was on probation, Niederer was subject to a search without a warrant. The officers drew their guns ordered everyone inside the home out, and began looking for Niederer.
After several minutes of not hearing from the dog inside the crawlspace, Rezentes went in after it and started crawling on the exposed roof joists.