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Canine, Asinine — What’s the Difference?

When a police officer in Naperville, Ill., saw a man at his patrol car, he went running to stop him. The man was taunting the officer’s police dog in the car, “sticking his face close to the cage, yelling and screaming at the dog, and sticking his tongue out and making faces,” said Sgt. John Westlove. Before the officer could arrive to intervene, the man opened the police car’s door. Naturally the dog tried to get at the man, who panicked and slammed the door again — on the dog’s head. The officer arrived about that time and wrestled the man to the ground, and a backup officer jumped in to assist. Douglas Carncross, 26, was arrested and charged with injuring a police animal, criminal trespass to a vehicle, and resisting arrest. The dog, Sabek, was bleeding, but is expected to recover. (RC/Chicago Tribune) ...I wonder how tempted the officer was to just let the dog handle it.