Officers in Raid Threatened, Sheriff Says

By Rosalind S. Helderman and Aaron C. Davis
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 5, 2008; Page B01

The Prince George's County Sheriff's Office has concluded in an internal review that its deputies were justified when they shot and killed two dogs belonging to the mayor of Berwyn Heights during a July drug raid, Sheriff Michael Jackson said yesterday.

The sheriff said that one dog was engaging an officer and that the other was running toward a second officer at the time the black Labs were shot, but the ruling did not satisfy the mayor, who said the inquiry was incomplete and misleading.

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