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Salt Lake City won’t release police dog videos after mayor promised ‘to be open and transparent’

The K-9 program is suspended as district attorney considers charging officers with crimes.

(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Chief of Police Mike Brown arrive for a news conference held at the Public Safety Building Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, regarding a police shooting of a teenage boy. In another news conference later that month, Mendenhall promised transparency after a review of the city's K-9 apprehension unit uncovered a "pattern of abuse of power."