Dziekan v. Gaynor

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police officer acted reasonably when he shot an unleashed fifty- to sixty-pound dog that was running toward him
• “[T]he law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.” (citation omitted)
• “[R]easonably competent officers could disagree as to the appropriate 18 course of conduct when faced with the potential harm posed by an unleashed 55-to-60 19 pound dog running in circles within approximately 15 feet of an officer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).