Miso was a year old in April 2024 — a dog whose breed the public record never captured — on a leash at Sewell Park in Miami. Police officers were there because a man complained that the dog had bitten him.
What happened next was recorded by the officers' own body cameras. The video showed an officer kick the barking dog in the face. When Miso slipped the leash and ran at the officer, a second officer fired one shot. The dog died in the park.
The sequence matters, and the video preserves it: first the kick to the face of a leashed, barking dog; then the dog free of its leash and running at the officer who had kicked it; then the gunshot. Whatever threat Miso posed in the instant the shot was fired, the moments before it — an officer's kick to the face of a restrained animal — were the police contribution to how the encounter ended.
The Miami Police Department reviewed the incident. Its internal affairs division found that the officers followed policy.
Miso's owner disputed that finding and called publicly for better animal-handling training for officers. The owner's plea puts the department's conclusion in its harshest light: if kicking a leashed dog in the face, and then shooting the dog when it breaks free, is consistent with Miami Police Department policy, then the policy is the problem. A finding of no violation does not mean nothing went wrong. It means the rules were written so that nothing could be.
Neither officer has been publicly named — not the one who delivered the kick, nor the one who fired. The public knows what they did only because their cameras were running, and the department that reviewed the footage concluded it showed policy at work.
That is where the record ends. No discipline was reported for the officer who kicked Miso or for the officer who fired. No criminal charges were reported. The internal affairs finding stands, and the owner's call for better training remains, as far as the public record shows, just that — a call. Miso was one year old.