Detroit Cop Shooting Dog Through Fence In The Head Causes Outrage

A Detroit police officer will not be reprimanded for shooting a dog in the head on the city's east side Aug. 3 after it attacked a police dog during a search of neighborhood yards for a suspect's weapon.

Department officials say the officer acted according to protocol.

Ring doorbell footage of the incident, which has since gone viral, shows a Detroit officer walking along a residential sidewalk with a K-9 officer on a leash when a white medium-sized dog runs up to its home's front gate. The two dogs run together on opposite sides of the fence, then the K-9 approaches the fence and the white dog latches itself onto the K-9's snout between the wrought iron fence rails.

The officer is then seen reaching for her gun and firing a single fatal shot at the white dog's head.