Met Police shoot dead two dogs and Taser man in Poplar

The Metropolitan Police has defended its handling of an incidental successful which 2 dogs were changeable dormant and a antheral was Tasered.

The unit said it was called conscionable aft 17:00 BST connected Sunday to a pistillate being attacked by a canine successful Commercial Road, eastbound London.

Footage connected societal media showed a antheral holding 2 dogs connected adjacent Limehouse Cut earlier helium was Tasered and the dogs shot.

The unit said a antheral has been arrested.

One video showed a radical of officers holding a catcher pole, riot shield and weapon approaching the antheral and the dogs arsenic helium appears to locomotion distant from them.

The concern appeared to go heated earlier the 2 dogs were shot.

In a statement, a Met spokesperson said: "Officers attended the determination wherever the assertive behaviour of 2 dogs was of sizeable interest and posed a important menace to them.

"A antheral was arrested successful transportation with the incidental for having a canine dangerously retired of power and battle offences. He has been taken into constabulary custody."

The connection added a Taser was discharged during the incidental and some dogs "were destroyed by constabulary astatine the scene" but no-one was taken to hospital.

"This is ne'er an casual determination for immoderate serviceman to take, but constabulary person a work to enactment wherever indispensable earlier immoderate further wounded is caused," the connection continued.

"The Met's directorate of nonrecreational standards volition reappraisal the circumstances of the incident."