We’re tracking police dog bites across the country

Police escorted a 30-year-old man to a squad car after a domestic disturbance. Video shows an officer allegedly opened the wrong door and unintentionally released the K-9, which bit the man on the leg and backside, according to a local news report.

A Black architecture student was mauled by a K-9 at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in a San Francisco suburb. He suffered wounds to his back, leg and hand.

Deputies went to the home of a 35-year-old man after they received a report of a man with a gun. When they arrived, the man came outside. Deputies Tased the man, who is Black, and released a dog, Vader, on him. Video showed deputies having a hard time getting the dog to stop biting the man's leg, and his lawyer said he suffered significant injuries. No gun was found. The sheriff office said the incident is still being investigated.

After leading police on a car chase, a man suspected of stalking refused to get out of his car, according to a news report. Police shattered the driver’s side window with a rubber bullet and ordered a dog to leap into the car. The dog bit the man, forcing him out of the car.

A detective shot a K-9 after the dog confused the undercover deputy for a suspect, according to a local news report.

Deputies released a dog on a 63-year-old woman after they responded to an allegation the woman had beaten her partner with a wrench, according to a local news report. Officers said the woman was combative, and the dog bit her several times.

Police were looking for a suspect who'd stolen a car when the dog instead bit two Black teenagers. A girl was bitten in the groin, backside and arm. A boy was bitten in both arms.

Officers tried to pull over a Pittsburg man on charges of driving with a suspended registration. The man, 49, led them on a car chase through several cities before getting out of the car in Oakland. Officers then released the K-9, which bit the man on his arms and back, according to a lawsuit.

San Diego police responded to a call of a person in distress, running in and out of traffic. They released a K-9, and the dog continued to bite, even after the Black man was lying on the ground, handcuffed.

A 22-year-old Indio man was lying on the ground after officers accused him of failing a probation check. Video shows officers holding the man down and handcuffing him before allowing the dog to bite him on the leg, according to a local news report.

A Black woman riding her bicycle was mistaken for a male suspect. According to court documents, an officer hit the 19-year-old and released a dog on her leg, causing serious injury.

A Hispanic man was out for a jog when police mistook him for a suspect. They ordered him to lie on the ground, and he complied. Police then released a K-9, who bit him on the arm, resulting in severe injuries, according to a federal lawsuit.

A K-9 bit a man in the scrotum, causing him to lose a testicle, according to court records. The dog also bit the man, who is Black, in the calf 15 to 20 times, according to a lawsuit. The encounter began when deputies tried to pull the man over for a broken tail light.

A California man sued claiming a deputy used excessive force by sending a dog after him when he ran from law enforcement. The dog bit the man's stomach and arm. In court documents, the man said he suffers from numbness and lost feeling in his arms and fingers.

A Southern California man was bitten by a police dog inside a laundry room. The man, who is White, had no weapon and had not committed any crimes, according to a lawsuit.

A retired police dog who lived with a police officer attacked an 85-year-old woman. Her neighbor, 64, intervened and suffered such severe bites that he had to be hospitalized and died a few days later. A judge later ruled the department was not liable because the dog was not their K-9, and a jury acquitted the officer.

After a car chase near Los Angeles, police released a dog, Rocky, on a man who was on his hands and knees. The K-9 bit the man's arm for more than a minute.

A Black 16-year-old was standing with a group of friends when a police officer pulled up. According to a lawsuit, a police dog ran out of the cruiser and bit the teen on the leg and hand, leaving him with physical and emotional scars.

A 62-year-old man searching for his neighbor's lost cat wandered into a construction site, where he triggered an alarm. Deputies released a K-9 on him. Court records allege the deputies handed the man a sticker that read, "I met Riggs," the name of the police dog.

A San Diego woman called police asking for psychiatric help for her husband. Instead of a psychiatric team, officers arrived with a K-9. When the man resistes handcuffs, they released the dog to bite him.

A White man led police on a car chase, then fled on foot into a field. He alleged that officers used excessive force by striking him and then releasing a K-9 to bite him after he'd passed out.

A 25-year-old man visiting San Diego for a convention was found naked and running in a canyon. Police released a dog on him, and he suffered multiple wounds to his right leg. He sued, claiming that the bites became infected, and he had to pay substantial medical bills, missed work and experienced emotional distress.

Police suspected a man of multiple hit-and-runs that had injured several people. California Highway Patrol officers chased him and eventually released a K-9 named Diesel, who bit the suspect on the legs, arms and head, according to court documents.

A Bay Area police officer shot a K-9 to defend himself after the dog somehow got out of a patrol car and attacked the officer.

A man ran from agents trying to serve a federal search warrant. He climbed over a fence, but fell, hit his head and lost consciousness. He woke by the time deputies found him. They released a dog on him, according to court records, and told him to crawl toward them, a K-9 clamped to his arm.

An officer stopped a car for a broken side mirror. The car took off. The married couple inside, both of them women, eventually ran out of the car and hid in a dry riverbed. Deputies released a dog. The women's suit said the dog attack was motivated in part by their sexual orientation. A jury found the deputy did not use excessive force.

A K-9 accidentally bit a retired police officer from Mexico while the man visited a friend's house in the Bay Area. Police were searching for a suspect when the dog instead attacked the retired officer, who was asleep at his friend's home.

A Fresno woman called police to ask for psychiatric help for her brother. When police arrived, they sent a K-9 into the house, then followed. Police say the man had a knife, and they fatally shot him. He was found with several dog bites to his arm.

A 33-year-old man died from asphyxiation during an encounter with police in which a police dog bit him in the face and officers hit the man with batons. The incident began when deputies tried to remove the sleeping man from a lawn. A Southern California county settled for $3.4 million with his family.

A 43-year-old California architect was bitten by a police dog inside his office. Police had gone to his office after responding to his home about an alleged domestic dispute, and they released a dog into the building. The man suffered severe wounds to his left arm.

An off-duty police dog who lived with its handler wandered into a neighbor’s yard and bit the resident. The man sued the city and settled, according to city records.

An 89-year-old Filipino man died from complications after a K-9 bite. Police hoisted the dog, Nicky, over a security wall and into the man's backyard, where the dog dragged him across the yard, causing an ultimately fatal leg wound, according to a lawsuit. Police had been chasing two robbery suspects. The city settled for $1.5 million but contended that the dog acted as it was trained to do.

A San Diego woman fell asleep on her office couch after going out with co-workers. Police responding to an alarm in the office building released a K-9, which attacked the woman while she slept and bit her lip.

A police dog ran into a birthday party and accidentally bit a woman. The K-9 was chasing a suspect wanted for indecent exposure, who had ducked into the woman's home, according to a local news report. The woman, who suffered minor scratches and a sprained ankle, was shielding her 3-year-old nephew when the dog bit her, according to the report.

A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized after police said he held a knife to his throat and then came toward officers, according to a local news report. Police said they fired projectiles at him, and the teen's father told a TV reporter that police also released a K-9, which bit his son's shoulder and back.