WATCH: Emotional confrontation after police shoot owner’s dog in yard

Watch above: The confrontation between Sean Kendall and police after he learned his dog had been shot by an officer. Warning: Explicit language used, discretion is advised.

TORONTO – A Utah man documented in a video posted to YouTube a devastating ordeal of learning his dog had been shot in the head by police looking for a missing child.

“About 15 minutes ago I got a phone call from Utah Animal Control calling to tell me that an officer had shot and killed my dog,” Sean Kendall said in the video, taken June 18. “He was inside the backyard in a fenced-off area. What was the cause for an officer to shoot and kill my dog?”

The video shows Kendall arriving home to two Salt Lake police officers standing on his lawn. They explain the officer who shot the dog was no longer there, but said the “basic circumstances” were that he had been “threatened by the dog.”

Kendall alternated between outrage and tears as he shouted questions that were met with bowed heads from the officers.

“Do I have multiple gun wounds in what I consider my child? … Why didn’t the officer just back up and leave? Why did he feel the need to escalate the situation to a point where he had to shoot my dog in the head?”

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Salt Lake Police Detective Dennis McGowan said police knocked on the front door and nobody was home, so the officer entered the backyard to look for a missing child. Police said the officer felt threatened enough to open fire.

McGowan said an internal police investigation is looking into intent and circumstances of the incident, as well as answers to Kendall’s question as to why the officer didn’t leave the yard upon feeling threatened.

The Salt Lake City Council is asking Police Chief Chris Burbank to educate the public on missing child search policies after public outcry and multiple inquiries, Utah’s Deseret News reported Thursday.

Chief Burbank has already met with Kendall to “go over what happened” and “sympathize” with him, said McGowan, who added Burbank is also looking into additional training specifically concerning animal encounters.

“We’re always open to improving what we do here; always open to additional training and getting better and working with the community,” said McGowan.

“And obviously there has been a great outcry with this and it’s got our attention.”

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