The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/10/unprovoked-dog-bite-leads-to-officer-involved-shooting-of-man-dog-in-sfs-union-square/A confrontation between the SFPD and a homeless man whose large off-leash dog allegedly bit a bystander in an unprovoked attack near O’Farrell and Market streets Sunday led to one of the officers shooting both the man and the dog in the legs. As KPIX reports, when officers from the San Francisco Police Department were speaking to the man around 4:30 pm Sunday about putting his German Shephard-Husky mix on a leash — while the dog repeatedly barked at police, one of the officers fired their weapon, as the Chronicle reports.

Officer-Involved Shooting in the Tenderloin District

On November 9, 2025, at approximately 4:27 p.m., San Franc

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