Two Brooklyn teenagers who say a police dog attacked them announced plans to sue the city on Tuesday.
The boys, Emmanuel Blake and William Bryant, showed reporters wounds on their arms. Their lawyer said that earlier this month, police turned a dog loose in the maintenance garage of a Brooklyn housing project where the boys were hanging out.
The boys were arrested and charged with burglary and trespassing. A grand jury dismissed the burglary charge.
“Eighteen days since these two young men were at a precinct where there were sergeants, lieutenants, captains, detectives, and not a single question was raised about how this could happen, about how two young men could both be mauled by a police dog while in police custody,” the attorney, Andrew Stoll, said.
The Police Department would only say that an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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