Joseph Pettaway bled to death after a police dog bit his thigh and tore his femoral artery inside a mostly empty house in Montgomery in 2018. A federal judge denied a request to release footage on Thursday.
nearly four years later. The videos are currently filed under seal in the lawsuit because of a protective order preventing their release to the public.Attorneys for the city have successfully beat back multiple requests from the family and the press to make the footage public. They argued in court that releasing the video could jeopardize police safety, and the violent footage could end up “facilitating civil unrest.
“The United States Courts are the people’s courts,” Sikes said at a hearing in federal court in Montgomery on Wednesday, pointing out the footage is the central evidence in the lawsuit. The handler testified in a deposition that he had to choke the dog until it could not breathe and was nearly unconscious in order to get Niko to let go of Pettaway’s groin.
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