- Footage exhibits the second armed officers fired a bullet on the hound in Ealing
Armed police have shot an ‘uncontrolled’ canine on a west London avenue in broad daylight in the present day simply moments after the mutt killed one other hound.
Video footage emerged on X, previously Twitter, that exhibits a firearms officer pointing their gun at a dark-haired canine because it drags one other canine locked in its jaws alongside the pavement.
A cracking noise is heard and a puff of smoke flies into the air because the officer fires a bullet on the canine.
People could be heard screaming within the background as two officers then chase after the hound down Queens Avenue, in Greenford, Ealing.
A lady’s voice could be heard saying: ‘They’ve simply shot the canine. Oh my god. S**t.’
The Metropolitan Police confirmed in an announcement the canine has since been destroyed to ‘stop it from inflicting additional critical hurt’.
The pressure didn’t give particulars of the breed of canine and stated: ‘We have been referred to as at 10.39am on 14 January to a report of a canine uncontrolled having killed one other canine in Queens Ave, Greenford.
‘Officers attended and took the choice to destroy the canine on the scene so as to stop it from inflicting additional critical hurt.
‘We know that it will have been upsetting for these current.’
The 15-second clip has been considered practically 15,000 occasions on the social media platform.
It comes almost a yr since Met Police officers shot lifeless two ‘dangerously uncontrolled’ dogs that had reportedly attacked a girl.
Videos posted on social media by horrified witnesses in May final yr confirmed a bunch of cops following a person with two barking dogs on brief leads alongside a canal in Limehouse, east London.
Officers have been seen in a heated row with the person as he continued to carry on to his dogs and try and calm them down.
The scenario rapidly escalated with one of many black dogs being shot lifeless, whereas the screaming proprietor was then tasered and pinned to the bottom.
The second canine was subsequently shot lifeless as screaming witnesses seemed down on the scene from balconies of surrounding flat blocks.
The London police pressure defended its actions explaining that the officers had ‘an obligation to behave the place essential earlier than any additional harm was induced’.
The Met stated on the time they have been pressured to behave swiftly as a result of ‘the aggressive behaviour of two dogs was of appreciable concern’.
Officers had been referred to as to the scene following experiences of a girl being attacked by the canine on Commercial Road in Tower Hamlets.
The dogs have been stated to be ‘of appreciable concern’ and posed a ‘important menace to’ officers who attended the scene.
No one was taken to hospital because of the attack, however a person was arrested in reference to having a dangerously uncontrolled canine.
