SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A 33-year-old man faces charges that he bit a police dog during a disturbance outside a downtown bar. Paul Russell of Syracuse, was charged with injuring a police animal, resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration.
The incident occurred Saturday night when Officer William Foster and his dog, a German shepherd named Renny, were sent to investigate a disturbance at 10 p.m. outside the Empire Brewing Co., a bar in Syracuse's Armory Square district.
Russell said he and a friend were asked to leave the tavern and then got into a tussle with bouncers. According to police reports, Russell grabbed Renny by the throat and started choking the animal and biting it on the left side of his neck. Foster said he punched Russell twice in the face to make him let go of the dog. Russell said he suffered a broken nose and two black eyes when police hit him.
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They should have let the dog have the POS.
The incident occurred Saturday night when Officer William Foster and his dog, a German shepherd named Renny, were sent to investigate a disturbance at 10 p.m. outside the Empire Brewing Co., a bar in Syracuse's Armory Square district.
Russell said he and a friend were asked to leave the tavern and then got into a tussle with bouncers. According to police reports, Russell grabbed Renny by the throat and started choking the animal and biting it on the left side of his neck. Foster said he punched Russell twice in the face to make him let go of the dog. Russell said he suffered a broken nose and two black eyes when police hit him.
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They should have let the dog have the POS.