United States .. A police officer resigns after mistreating a police dog

A police officer in Salisbury, North Carolina, has resigned after posting a video showing him abusing a police dog during training, according to ABC News.

After a weeks-long investigation, the Salisbury Police Department announced that it had concluded that the officer portrayed in the video, identified as James Hampton, “behaved in a manner that was completely inconsistent with his training in handling K-9 dogs and violated police department policy.”

“We have taken disciplinary measures against the officer, and after a hearing for Officer Hampton, he submitted his resignation immediately,” the police said in a statement, confirming that they did not ask him to resign.

The video showed the police officer putting a collar on the dog called “Zol” and then pulling it by the neck and pushing it towards the ground, then suspending it in the air and swinging it around his back and over his shoulder, before heading towards a patrol car.

Source: abc news