Nearly four years ago, a Montgomery police dog bit and killed Joseph Lee Pettaway. His family wants a judge to make the body camera footage public. The city's attorney says releasing the video could result in “the likelihood of injury to officers.”
is also seeking release of the video, pointing out the public’s interest in the footage in a written request to Judge Marks. Marks has not responded to the request. Pettaway’s family supports making the video public.Pettaway, a 51-year-old Black man, bled to death after thePolice said they got a call about a person inside the house early that morning and believed Pettaway was a burglary suspect.
The handler, Officer Nicholas Barber, entered with the dog, Niko, on a leash. The dog bit Pettaway in the thigh and tore his femoral artery. Pettaway bled to death on a sidewalk outside the home while waiting for an ambulance. Police in an affidavit said they believed Pettaway was a “serious and imminent danger.” But family members say Pettaway was a handyman who had been helping fix up the house and sometimes slept there.
It took two years for the family’s lawyers to see the video of the deadly dog bite. After obtaining copies, the lawyers submitted a written timeline in court records, saying the bite lasted two minutes and that the handler struggled to get the dog to let go.About five minutes after the bite ends, according to that timeline, another officer outside asks Barber, “Did ya’ get a bite?” Barber says, “Sure did, heh, heh .” The officer asks: “Are you serious?” Barber replies. “F**k yeah.
Soon after, police drag Pettaway out to the sidewalk and wait another 6 minutes for paramedics. Pettaway died at the hospital., in a request to the court, wrote: “In the nearly four years since Mr. Pettaway’s death, public tax dollars have funded the defense of the litigation resulting from that fatal encounter, yet the public has been kept from seeing the footage of police officers acting on the public’s behal. The video footage will show the public what happened.
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