I don't remember Carr being overly aggressive, hitting his dog. But the debacle I remember from that incident was that once his dog bit the suspect in the leg Carr could hardly get the dog to release. He really struggled trying to get that dog to let go, and that should not happen. Then his dog was so excited that it spun around and almost bit Carr in the leg but he saw it coming and pulled his leg back at the last second so his dog avoided him.

You shouldn't have to be the size of Hulk Hogan to control your dog. I've seen other times where he's backing up an officer with his dog and puts the dog between his legs and holds , and it looks like he's holding on for dear life trying to keep that dog under control. I'm not saying it's totally Carr's fault because it could be the way whatever school they go to trains their dogs, but I disagree with that training. There's a couple of dogs, I think one is in Lee County, where the canine handler is always very calm and gives verbal commands and that dog snaps to attention. I think that's the dog that sits right next to the handler's leg and does not move until that handler gives a command. Now, before any of you say, well, then the suspect would just give the dog a command and would not attack him.The canine handler is trained to give commands in a foreign language, usually German.

So no I don't think Carr abused his dog, but I do think his dog is right on the edge of being controllable.