Police Shooting

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A police officer shot at a dog while investigating a domestic violence incident. Bullet fragments then hit a young girl in the face and the neck. But the police officer is immune from prosecution for reckless aggravated battery, an appeals court in Kansas ruled, because he used the force as a self-defense measure against a “barking, lunging dog he believed to be a pit bull.” 

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