FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Broward County Animal Management officer was hospitalized final week after she was attacked by a canine and suffered severe accidents.
The assault occurred within the 700 block of Southwest 14th Terrace round 7 p.m. Thursday.
According to NBC affiliate WTVJ, the animal management employee, Martina Bernard, was doing a welfare examine on an American Staffordshire terrier combine when the canine started to maul her.
Police mentioned {that a} neighbor known as 911 after listening to a lady cry for assist and seeing the canine with its tooth round her neck.
Physique digital camera video reveals officers arriving on the scene to search out Bernard laying on the bottom within the yard along with her face coated in blood.
The canine’s proprietor can be seen within the video holding down the canine, which had been stabbed in an try to take away it from Bernard.
The officer might be heard asking the girl the place she was bit, to which she responds, “Throughout my head, my face, my breast, my neck.”
Bernard was rushed to Broward well being Medical Middle for remedy.
Officers eliminated the canine who was transported to Broward County Animal Care the place it was later euthanized.
