Horrible Video: NYPD Officer Shoots a Puppy Dead As It Wags Tail

by Rachel Alexander | March 27, 2016 5:01 pm

We may never know the full story behind this. But this should serve as a warning to anyone with a tough kind of dog to beware if cops are called to a scene, even if just to your neighbors’ place, they may react negatively if you let your dog out near them.[1]

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CBS News has the story:

A woman’s dog was shot to death by a New York police officer, and the devastated woman wants the officer held accountable, CBS New York station WCBS-TV reports.

The Bronx woman said the officer had no reason to open fire. The entire episode was caught on video.

“He was my beloved, and now he’s gone,” Yvonne Rosado said Thursday.

She relives the moment when her dog, Spike, was killed every time she leaves her apartment.

“It’s like a tearing inside that I feel every day when I open that door and I see that in my head, him just lying there twitching,” Rosado said.

It happened in the stairwell of Rosado’s building in the Fordham section of the Bronx last month, when a neighbor called police for an unrelated issue.

The neighbor said she was talking to officers when Rosado cracked open her own door to see what was going on. Spike, a pit bull, slipped out to investigate.

“When I realized that it was an officer in front of the door, I said, ‘He’s friendly! He’s friendly!'” Rosado said.

Surveillance video shows Spike coming out of the apartment. His tail was wagging as he ran over to the officer, who pulled his weapon and shot him at point-blank range.

The dog looks very friendly walking up to the officer, but we won’t know all the facts until they come out at trial. This is a very tragic situation. I’m a former prosecutor with nothing to hide, but when the police knock on my door, I won’t even answer. They’ll need a search warrant.