Only in a police state is the chief in charge permitted to lose count of those responsible in excessive use of force incident.

Police misconduct should never be a "misdemeanor." Because of their position.

It shouldn’t be a misdemeanor when a Cop does the Crime it should be a Felony

A legal scholar and lawyer said it best,"It's a huge poker tell when police won't release body cam footage or becouse of ongoing investigations". If they honestly thought the officers actions were justified they're fast to release officers bodycam footage of the incident. You know we have a good case when they obstruct bodycam footage." You just know they're doing everything they can to minimize the inevitable damage from legal settlement

Just another citizen who will receive a lot of taxpayer money because some cop didn't want to follow the law...

Even the dog knew better.

Show me a cop I’ll show you a criminal .

BPD has a lot of dirty cops.

Copslaining nonsense from the chief. Very sad.

sociopath cop

"We do our best to investigate ourselves to ensure we find ourselves guilty of no wrongdoing..."

The dog was better trained than the cop. No threat, no bite.

"use of force incident" AKA, assaulting civilians and crapping all over the Constitution. This would not be an issue if law enforcement departments followed and obey the law along with the Constitution they swear an oath to uphold. Violating their oath of office AKA committing a crime, should be instant jail time.

K9 was a lot smarter and knew better!..🤣😂

The department had the opportunity to ensure this didn't happen by firing the thug when he was caught drunk driving.

Major lawsuit against the police department.

Forcing a dog to be a pig is animal cruelty.

Dogs should not be used in police work. They are too unreliable/fallible and are a huge liability. But, the police really don't care about liability or accountability.

“We discovered this internally” - I’m glad they came forward with the info, but this explains why so many issues are kept quiet. The police are policing themselves. Who else gets to do that? Anybody?

Bakersfield is the septic tank of California

strip him of certification

Lawsuit

He needs to be fired immediately and I hope the woman sued the officer personally and the city

The cop should be charged with the federal felony of Deprivation of Rights Under the Color of Law and sentenced to 10 years.

We the People must ask ourselves... what WE would be charged with if WE sicked our trained attack dog on someone?! FELONY ASSAULT!!!

The dog used more restraint than the officer. Perhaps the collar and chain roles should be reversed.

There's nothing to see here. How can the cheif not know how many pigs were there😢

My guess is that for every case that's made public there are 100 cases that never see the light of day, what's your guess?

K9 officers are too often too eager to use their dogs. Only this time even the dog knew better. Wow.

Using canines for the express purpose of biting should be a felony criminal offense every single time. If a bite occurs in the dog trying to stop a runner fine. Or if the officer is attacked. But sent to bite is a line that shouldn’t be crossed.

This police officer was using a person as a 'Bait Dog' to train a K9. A clear violation of her Civil Rights and only charged with assault. If anyone knows her, she needs a good lawyer. How many other times has this officer assaulted people while on duty.

Cops don't become psychopaths, Psychopaths become cops!

Intentional Tort claim should be priority for this woman. No matter how the DA tries to handle this, Tort claims will make people act accordingly and make them an extreme liability wherever they seek future employment. Paid leave and a misdemeanor charge😂😂😂 Goes to show who our city officials are really here for. Disgusting. I know that any lawyer in town will never give this lady the right advice on how to proceed. Money wouldn’t be enough for me to not take this to the top. Prayers to her and her family to have the clarity they need to navigate this.

At least they didn't try to cover up this ONE excessive use of force incident.

criminals with badge

The chief is nothingbut a fence sitter. He does not mental attitude to make a proper decision. He discusses whst they have in place byt it did not prevent this situation. This officer should have never been hired.

Always film the police. I’m sure the police lied on their reports

I would bet 80% of your officers use excessive force all of the time.

misdemeanor?? BS. If it were other way around, person would have been jailed

The police union will have charges dropped against the cop in some way

First words out of chiefs mouth was a lie..question, how many cops were there...replies...I don't know

Damn dog stickers!

Cop gets a DUI and he's still a cop???? No wonder this guy is out of control; he gets away with all kinds of crap.

A misdemeanor? The same any other would get for like conduct? So .. Misdemeanor charges for sicking a dog on their employee? Then further force behind the animal attack .... Nope.

Use us force records came mentioned in this report came from the polic e department themselves. Think about how disengenouse those statistics actually are - when investigating themselves and finding no wrongdoing. Image how different the would actually be if citizen review boards had authority for transparent investigations and real accountability. In fact, the 'Council on Criminal Justice Task Force on Policing' called for "complete overhaul of U.S. police training and national standards". The task force found "most police training in the United States is misfocused, too short, uses ineffective teaching methods, and is out of alignment with both community safety priorities and research about what works to minimize bias and use of force." The task force concluded. “Police departments need policies and standards that hold officers accountable - and leaders committed to changing the internal culture of their departments.” We've posted this justice task force study many times to date and law enforcement has failed to offer single reform. Maybe its because news media censors open debate or maybe its because a the court of opinion manufactures consent.

Any officer that was there and witnessed or was aware of the the situation. The canine officer created should be fired and never allowed to be a police officer again if they did not report the incident to the command staff

Assault with a deadly weapon

Misdemeanor charge...

Did you fire him an take away his police officer license

They are all criminals

We investigated ourselves and guess what!

How is The police chief managing his officers well if he doesn't know how many officers show to a scene that happened in the past

Where's the body cam footage?

Why isn't the prosecutor doing independent review from the police department for uses of force especially with dogs in the first place and needed to wait for the police department to send over a file that usually would probably try to exonerate his

**ASK YOURSELF** OF THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ""CONTACTS" HOW MANY ARE FORCED OR COERCED THROUGH DEPARTMENT REGULATED INTIMIDATION???? AND HOW MANY WERE ACTUALLY NECESSARY?? (the numbers will enrage you!! Spoiler, it's mostly traffic tickets and checkpoints!)

These cops are going to try to cover up everything they can they need to be exposed with body cameras videos that need to be released😅😅😅

Interesting 🤔 we will have to wait and see.....

This cop sure doesnt know whats going on, thats why hes chief.

Hang on, he says he won’t discuss it because the case has been filed and they don’t talk about filed cases. BUT!! They’d be talking about him still if he was an average Joe. Complete BS.

So the police chief doesn't know how many officers reported to the scene and he doesn't understand why he doesn't have enough officers to police the area and then he blames on the budget probably / defund to police movement and people wonder why there's a problem with the police force

Tank top reporting? Nice!

Even the dog knew force wasn't necessary ,and the chief is obviously a career politician he avoided answering anything directly ,he's in the middle of a high profile investigation and he doesn't know how many cops were present ? and lets take a look at the most important part of this story ,Brueman who has prior disciplinary incidents was previously arrested for DUI ,yet he got to keep his job after all that ,just Like officer Grayson that just murdered Sonya Massey

Inveterate liar says what?

Really pathetic get video after and see how bad they violated her beound human rights bur you wont

Lol most ppl vget fired from important jobs for DUI cops just get a stern talking to

California police departments throwing their officers under the bus again. Nothing new.

Germany 1930's

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Sounds like the dog was a better cop than any of the people involved.

This is what is wrong with out justice system. Somebody accidently brushing against a police officer can be charged with felony assault yet here we have a police officer getting charged with a misdemeanor for what is being called excessive use of force.