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A jury on Friday found Salt Lake police officer Nickolas Pearce not guilty of aggravated assault after ordering a police dog to attack a Black man who was being arrested.
The trial began on Tuesday for an officer charged with aggravated assault for his controversial use of a K-9 in a 2020 arrest in Salt Lake City. The man who was being arrested testified about his experience.
A Salt Lake City police K-9 handler is on trial over whether the officer was reasonable when he ordered his dog to bite a man kneeling in his backyard.
The incident was initially investigated as a domestic violence homicide.
Charges have been dismissed against a woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend who she believed was an intruder breaking into her home in Salt Lake City, Utah.