The f#### bastard!!
Very sad DON'T watch the video ;-)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3913189/Officers-shot-dog-killed-in-ChristchurchLATEST: Two police officers have been shot and injured and a police dog killed in Christchurch.
Police have stormed a house on Buccleugh St, in the suburb of Phillipstown, and taken a man - handcuffed with his face covered in blood and his shirt and trousers torn - away in a police car. A second man has also been arrested.
The house had been surrounded by police after reports of gunshots. A police dog was killed and two police officers suffered gunshot wounds.
The body of the police dog is lying in the street. The injured officers were reportedly shot in the leg and jaw. It is believed a .22 rifle was involved in the incident.
A St John's Ambulance spokesman said paramedics attended, but did not take any patients to hospital. "Anyone who was injured was taken to Emergency Department by their police colleagues."
A cordon blocks off parts of Cashel St, Hereford St, Linwood Ave and Buccleugh St.
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
Police Minister Judith Collins said she would be travelling to Christchurch.
"I am being updated as events unfold," Ms Collins said.
"I will be travelling to Christchurch this afternoon, and hope to visit the officers involved, and offer any support I can.
"This incident serves to remind us that the job police do in keeping the community safe can be dangerous and unpredictable."
WITNESSES
Hannah Johnson, 18, was in her flat on Buccleugh St when the incident happened right outside her house.
''I was sitting in my room and I heard all these guys, so I went and looked out my gate and there was this guy with his hands on his head, and the cops had him down on the ground then took him away,'' she said.
''I heard one gunshot, but that was further down the road.''
Ms Johnson said the police stayed in the area for some time after the incident.
''They're just standing behind their cars with these massive guns.''
Neighbour Matthew Pilcher was home with his mother when the action began and watched the arrest unfold from his window less than 20 metres away.
At about 11.30am, police began to negotiate with the suspect. Pilcher said the "scruffy, bearded" man was shouting and swearing at police.
''He was going, 'how's your mate, how's your mate?'. I think that was about the shot cop.''
Pilcher said he had seen a police dog take the man to the ground.
''I think he [the suspect] put his gun on the clothes line. I saw the dog attacking him. He's stopped swearing.
''Bascially he's put it [the gun] up there, they sent the dogs in and had guns pointing at him, three guns. Then the dog took him down.''
Another person, who declined to be named, was in nearby Cashel St and said they heard a single shot and saw a man doubled up outside a house in Buccleugh St.
"They had a guy down on the ground who's since been taken away. We thought he'd been shot," they said.
A nearby resident on Olliviers Road said he went to check his mailbox around 11.20am and was told to get back inside his house by a police woman.
"I hadn't heard the shots..." he said.
"But I took off back inside as fast my feet would take me."
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