Houston Chronicle by St. John Barned-Smith April 25, 2020
The dog wouldn’t stop biting. That’s what Olivia Sligh remembers most from the incident that landed her in the hospital in July 2018.
Sligh’s boyfriend called police, frantic. His 24-year-old girlfriend was hurting herself and needed help. She had reacted badly to her new psychiatric medication.
When two Conroe police officers arrived at their home on Plantation Drive, Sligh had fled into the nearby woods in an attempt to avoid being taken to the hospital.
The officers and their German shepherd followed. When they found her, an officer asked if she had any weapons, Sligh said. She didn’t.
One officer reached out, to pull her to her feet. That’s about when the police dog lunged at her and began biting. She started screaming but says the officers didn’t help.
“He was just standing there,†she said, of the dog’s handler. “It felt very wrong to me.â€
By the end of the encounter, she’d been bitten half a dozen times on her ankle, thigh and hip.
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