An innocent woman taking out the garbage was attacked by a police dog hunting for burglary suspects — suffering bite wounds when the K-9 resisted officers’ efforts to release its grip, according to a report.

Minnesotan Desiree Collins, 52, is now suing the St. Paul Police Department after the dog knocked her out of her shoes, dragged her to the ground and chomped on her arm Sept. 23, the Star Tribune of Minnesota reported.

The vicious attack behind a trash container was captured on horrifying bodycam video that shows the woman screaming in pain and pleading for help as the dog latches onto her arm.

One officer says, “Oh, there’s a lady.”

“You were at the wrong place at the wrong time,” a cop also is heard saying.

The K-9, Gabe, ignored more than 10 commands from his handler, Officer Thaddeus Schmidt, and another cop, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week.

Schmidt’s attempts to stop the attack using an electronic shock collar also failed before he finally managed to free Collins from Gabe’s jaws, according to the lawsuit.

“What you have here is a completely innocent person taking out their garbage … and a K-9 simply wasn’t controlled,” said one of Collins’ attorneys, Andrew Noel. “It should never have happened.”

The chilling footage shows Gabe walking far ahead of Schmidt on a 20-foot leash before disappearing behind a dumpster, where it attacked Collins at 6:30 a.m.

Collins, whose left hand was amputated when she was a child, suffered a bite wound to her leg and multiple bites to her right arm during the 30-second attack, according to the suit.

“She’s struggling emotionally with this incident,” Noel said.

According to the lawsuit, several officers responded to the burglary call, including Schmidt and the 5-year-old German shepherd, who joined the department in 2012.

They began searching for the suspects without any “visual target” or “definitive information” about the suspects’ whereabouts. With Gabe on the long lead, Schmidt gave two warnings: “Announce yourself. Come out now. You will get bit.”

“No reasonable officer would have believed that a warning given at this location, sheltered by homes and trees, and at this time would have been effective to anyone outside his immediate vicinity, including people more than a block away on the opposite side of the residential area, like Collins,” according to the suit.

Schmidt was involved in a similar incident in 2016 when Gabe, who was on a long leash, bit an innocent person, according to the suit. He received “supervisory counseling” on leash handling.

Collins is suing for unspecified punitive damages and changes in training and procedures in the police department’s use of K-9s.

“What happened to Ms. Collins was a terrible accident that should not have occurred,” Police Chief Todd Axtell said in a statement. “I am sorry it happened and that she was injured. As a department, we wish we could go back and do things differently. Unfortunately, we can’t.”