Kennewick, WA

Kennewick, WA: (May-02-07) Ken Rogers, a Washougal man, filed suit against the city after he was bitten by a police dog during a 2003 Kennewick police chase. Ken Rogers sued the city, Benton County and officers alleging that his civil rights were violated and accused the agencies of unlawful imprisonment, false arrest, undue search and seizure and of failing to get him adequate medical treatment. The suit stemmed from a July 13, 2003, incident when a Kennewick police dog followed a wrong scent into a fenced back yard on West Victoria Street where Rogers was asleep. Believing Rogers was the suspect; the police dog latched onto the 54-year-old man and in the struggle bit him several times on the hand, back, neck and face. In a settlement reached, a federal jury awarded nearly $1 million to Rogers as compensation. [TRI-CITY HERALD: DOG BITE]

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Published on May-4-07