A man bitten badly by a Mountain View police dog early Saturday
said he plans to sue the city for racial profiling and police
brutality. Patrick Terry, 25, of Jacksonville, Fla., received internal
and external stitches to repair the tears on the back of his left thigh
after he was stopped by an undercover officer while arguing with his
girlfriend. For now, he said, he can't climb the cell phone towers he
helps build for a living, and the hospital bills are piling up because
he doesn't have insurance. Terry and his girlfriend, Sarah Hill, have
contacted the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People and local civil rights attorneys about the incident. Terry said
the officer wouldn't have stopped him if he were not a 6-foot-7 black
man walking with a petite white woman. ``And they wouldn't have put the
dog on me neither,'' he said. Police have said the German shepherd,
named Tino, attacked Terry without being ordered to, perhaps because he
thought officers were in danger. The dog has been taken off active
duty. Coincidentally, Mountain View Police Chief Steve Vermeer denied
that a new report on racial profiling was accurate- arguing that the
Cenusus Bureau's data did not properly count Blacks. [more 
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