Overview
- Body-camera and surveillance video show officers contacting the owner after a bystander reported a dog bite near Market and Fourth on Nov. 9.
- As officers moved to detain the man, the unleashed dog bared its teeth, lunged at an officer, and was shot in a leg.
- The man, identified by police as 29-year-old Trusten Eaton, then rushed the officer who fired and threw a bottle, and an officer shot him in a leg.
- Police said they later learned the bottle was plastic, and that detail is part of the ongoing use-of-force reviews.
- Eaton was taken to a hospital and the dog to a veterinarian by Animal Care and Control, and officials said both are expected to survive as SFPD units, the Department of Police Accountability, and the District Attorney’s independent bureau investigate.