A video of police shooting a dog to death in front
of its owner has rather graphic content. The dog owner, Leon Rosby, was
arrested, when his dog trying to protect Leon was shot several times.
Rosby can then be seen putting his dog, which looks
like a Rottweiler, into his car and voluntarily putting his hands behind his
back to be arrested. As he was being handcuffed by the officers, the dog
started barking and jumped out of the car.
As the dog approached the officers, barking, the
police shot the dog several times. Police said they had no choice but to shoot
as the dog lunged towards them.
“It looks like the officer tried to reach down and
grab the leash, and then the dog lunges in the direction of him and the other
officers there,” Hawthorne police Lt. Scott Swain said to the Daily Breeze.
“And I know it’s the dog’s master, and more than likely not going to attack
him, (but) we’ve got a guy handcuffed that’s kind of defenseless. We have a
duty to defend him, too.”
Rosby’s attorney, Michael Gulden, told CBS that he
plans to file a lawsuit against the Hawthorne Police Department. He said the incident
took place at 137th Street and Jefferson.
The bystander uploaded the video of Rosby’s arrest
and the dog’s death, undated, toYouTube on June 30.
Two hours after it was posted to Reddit, the video
had 32,000 upvotes, but the comments were disabled because of Reddit’s rule
against, “witch-hunting or or incitement to witch hunt. This means no demanding
‘Reddit justice’ in any way in post titles or comments.”
WHERE ARE THE ANIMAL RIGHTS PEOPLE...THIS SHOULD NOT GO UNPUNISHED!!!
Dog killers info:
Lieutenant Scott Swain
Desk:(310) 349-2835
Cell: (310) 345-2348
e-mail: kswain@cityofhawthorne.org
Scott Swain Home (818) 243-3129 537 N Glendale Ave
Glendale, CA 91206-3307
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