Police officers say they were ‘taken by surprise’ by two pit bulls who attacked them as they carried out a raid on a drug dealer in his snack store – even though the pit bulls are right there waiting behind the door before officers even bashed their way in.

Body cam footage shows the two pits – named Chocolate Chip and Salami Mami (awww) – maul the four officers as soon as they enter the premises:

Amazingly, the police did not shoot the pit bulls, which is especially shocking considering one ‘took a pretty good chunk out of’ an officer’s leg, which left him requiring 11 stitches. Pretty sure any person who did enough damage to a cop to give them 11 stitches would be shot dead on the spot, so it’s quite incredible that these officers would have more grace and leniency to a pair of killer dogs over an actual human.

In the end, the officers managed to subdue the dogs with copious amounts of pepper spray and stun guns. Two men, Gabriel Blandino and Jeffrey Salley were arrested at the scene for possession of drugs and illegal firearms:

As for the pit bulls, both dogs were found to not be up to date with their rabies shots and are now being held under a 10-day quarantine. After that, I guess they get released back to their owners? They’re good dogs, really. They were just playing around and trying to rip off some limbs!

Major oversight by the cops to just bust in there while the dogs were running free, but I guess they needed the element of surprise to get their suspects. Fair enough really.

For the XL Bully owner in York who punched a vet in the face for failing to save his dog’s life, click HERE. Straight to jail.