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Punta Gorda, Florida - An officer’s dashcam video uploaded to this week shows a disturbing scene unfold as a police officer stops a man on a bicycle. An unarmed, shirtless, shoeless man is mauled for several minutes by a police K-9.The reason for the stop, according to the uploader, was the cyclist was riding without a light on his bike. As the video begins, the man on the bike is riding away from the police officer, despite the officer telling him to stop. However, after a 15-20 second slow ride down the road, the man eventually stops. That’s when all hell breaks loose.Because the man was in a diminished mental state, he was not complying precisely and as quickly as the officer demanded, so he released his dog. For the next several minutes, the dog tore into the man as he screams in agony.About one minute into the mauling, in between shouts of “Stop Resisting,” the officer tells the dog, “Good boy,” as it tears the man’s flesh from his arm. The officer continues to yell at the man to stop resisting as if someone can simply lay calmly as a dog tears a hole in them.Finally, the officer stops the attack, after the scene begins to resemble a horror movie. As other officers arrive, the man lays on the ground, covered in his own blood and bleeding out. When other officers see how badly injured he is, they had to call in for a helicopter to medivac him to the nearest hospital.