The Cobb County Police addressed concerns about last week’s killing of a dog by a Cobb police officer.
In a news conference that left more questions than answers, police released bodycam footage from the shooting. However, Cobb Police Chief Stuart VanHoozer drew no conclusions from the videos.
“I’ll let you make your own decisions on whether or not there was contact between the officer and the dog,” VanHoozer said.
The videos, each from a different officer’s bodycam, show a confusing scene. A dog can clearly be seen coming out of a house, and approaching an officer. The dog then turns and begins running in the other direction when the dog is shot by one of the officers.
The videos make it unclear as to if the dog attacked or was a threat to the officers and if the dog was a danger at the time it was shot.
The two officers involved in the shooting are back at work but the investigation into the shooting is still ongoing.
Police were investigating a 911 call that was made in the vicinity of the home where the shooting took place, but police now say that home was not the location of the call.
B.T. Clark
B.T. Clark is an award-winning journalist and the Publisher of The Georgia Sun. He has 25 years of experience in journalism and served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta for 15 years and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc. for 8 years. His work has appeared in several newspapers throughout the state including Neighbor Newspapers, The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal. He is a Georgia native and a fifth-generation Georgian.
