CINCINNATI — Cincinnati's top police union official is standing by officers who used a police dog to bite a 16-year-old during a warrant execution in April, arguing the teenager is lucky to be alive.

The teen, now 17, told us in a sit-down interview on Nov. 25 that he was asleep in bed when Cincinnati police officers arrived at his mother's home with a warrant for his arrest. He had allegedly violated the conditions of his electronic monitoring by leaving the house weeks earlier in connection with a pending felony auto theft case.

"I was on top of the bed asleep, and then once I just felt the dog biting me, that's when I tried to hop up," the teen told WCPO. "I was asleep. I ain't hear nothing. I just feel something latch onto my arm. So, I tried to hop out of the bed and run, like, get

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