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Police officers, some of them wounded, fled screaming after a pitbull attacked them during a house raid in east London — while locals stood and filmed the scene on their mobile phones, a court has heard.
One police officer broke down in tears as he told the jury at Inner London Crown Court how the dog attacked his colleague as they tried to subdue it and seemed not to notice them hitting it with their batons.
Members of the public who heard the four injured officers' screams came to the scene and stood there filming as they sought refuge on walls and inside a police van, another officer said.
Symieon Robinson-Pierre, 25, who is standing trial accused of four offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act, made no attempt to call his animal off the officers, the court heard.
It took five officers to partially subdue the animal but it was shot dead around 20 minutes later by armed police. The court heard that Robinson-Pierre told police: "It's not the dog's fault, you could have knocked, I'd have let you in,'' when he was arrested a short time later at the house in Albert Square, Newham, east London on March 22 this year.
The jury of seven men and five women were shown a video of the scene taken by police, showing bloodstains on the pavement and on a car where one officer sought refuge on the roof. Robinson-Pierre denies all four charges.
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