An officer with Utah’s Salt Lake City Police Department (SLCPD) is facing 15 years behind bars after body camera footage from April showed him ordering a K-9 dog to bite a man who was not resisting arrest and was complying with orders.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced on Wednesday that prosecutors believe Officer Nickolas Pearce used “unlawful force” in the April 24 arrest of 36-year-old Jeffery Ryans and have since charged the cop with aggravated assault, a second-degree felony.
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