Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shot a vicious pit bull to death as it was attacking a man at a Lancaster home Monday, authorities said.

The Little Rock police officer who killed a man’s dog Sunday evening shot the 1-year-old Labrador within a few seconds of responding to a call at a home in the Heights neighborhood, the man’s attorney...

According to Schmidt's arrest report, officers were going to release him when he balled his fist, charged at an officer and threatened to beat up the officer.