{"id":68901,"date":"2020-09-17T05:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T02:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/salt-lake-city-cop-charged-for-ordering-his-dog-to-attack-a-black-man\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T05:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T02:15:39","slug":"salt-lake-city-cop-charged-for-ordering-his-dog-to-attack-a-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/salt-lake-city-cop-charged-for-ordering-his-dog-to-attack-a-black-man\/","title":{"rendered":"#Salt Lake City cop charged for ordering his dog to attack a black man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Salt Lake City cop charged for ordering his dog to attack a black man<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/jeffery-ryans.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        An officer with the Salt Lake City Police Department was charged Wednesday with aggravated assault for ordering his dog to attack a black man who had his hands up.<\/p>\n<p>The Salt Lake County District Attorney\u2019s Office filed the charge against Officer Nickolas Pearce following a review of the April 24 incident that was first brought to light after <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2020\/08\/11\/salt-lake-city-police-dog\/\">the Salt Lake Tribune published<\/a> body camera footage of the attack on 36-year-old Jeffery Ryans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Ryans] wasn\u2019t resisting arrest,\u201d Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said in explaining his decision, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2020\/09\/16\/salt-lake-city-officer\/\">according to the Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe certainly wasn\u2019t posing an imminent threat of violence or harm to anyone and he certainly wasn\u2019t concealed. He was fenced in an area and was being compliant,\u201d said Gill.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation unfolded when police were called to Ryans\u2019 home after his daughter called 911 to report her father was screaming at, and had hit, her mother, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Ryans was being arrested that night because his wife had filed a protective order last December against him that barred him from being at the home, the Tribune reported.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly faces domestic assault charges, but Ryans said his wife told him the order was lifted and that he had been living at the home for weeks before the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, Ryans was in the backyard smoking a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce, one of the officers moving in to arrest Ryans, ordered him to \u201cget on the ground or you\u2019re going to get bit,\u201d according to the recording.<\/p>\n<p>As Ryans kneels to the ground with his hands up the officers get closer and the leashed dog, named Turco, begins biting and pulling at his left leg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m on the ground! Why are you biting me?!\u201d Ryans yells in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>Ryans begins shrieking in pain as the K9 officer in the encounter, Nickolas Pearce, praises the dog with \u201cgood boy\u201d several times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you guys \u2014 ow, what the f\u2013k!? Holy s\u2013t!\u201d Ryans screams. \u201cWhy the f\u2013k are you biting me!?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pearce had told the city\u2019s Civilian Review Board, who found the officer violated policy during the arrest, that he ordered his dog to bite Ryans because he thought the man was getting into an upright position to fight, the Tribune reported.<\/p>\n<p>But the board found that Ryans did not attempt to stand up or climb the fence, the report said.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/16\/salt-lake-city-cop-charged-for-ordering-his-dog-to-attack-a-black-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Salt Lake City cop charged for ordering his dog to attack a black man&#8221; An officer with the Salt Lake City Police Department was charged Wednesday with aggravated assault for ordering his dog to attack a black man who had his hands up. 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