The San Francisco Police Department held a town hall Tuesday to provide more details on what led an officer to shoot a man and his dog last week.

In the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 9, police officers of the Tenderloin police district were patrolling when a man came up to them reporting that he had been bit in the leg by an off-leash dog.

He showed officers a bloody wound on his leg, according to body camera footage presented during the virtual town hall.

Two officers located the owner of the shepherd and husky mix, 29-year-old Trusten Eaton, near Market and O’Farrell streets.

Eaton appeared to resist the commands of an officer trying to place him under arrest. The dog then barked toward the officer when Eaton got away from the officer’s grasp, according to surveillance footage.

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