A San Jose police K-9 bit a man for 2 minutes and 40 seconds, which a federal judge ruled constituted an excessive use of force, a court order shows.
"The Court finds this intrusion severe," U.S. District Judge Edward Davila wrote in a 37-page ruling filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Jose. "A K-9 attack of this duration, while the suspect lay wounded and nearly motionless, is without precedent."Davila added that the San Jose Police Department, being sued by the family of David Tovar Jr., "failed to cite a single case" where a police dog attacked anyone for that long, and especially after he had been shot.
In addition, then-Acting Police Chief David Tindall said that an officer saw Tovar reach into his waistband pulling out what the officer "believed to be the butt of a handgun," even though it later turned out to be a screwdriver.Tindall said police gave Tovar "multiple commands to show his hands," but he did not comply.Tovar was also suspected of stealing a car that had a shotgun in it.
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