A Hawthorne California Police Officer shot and killed a dog Sunday belonging to a man named Leon Rosby. The video was posted to Youtube and Reddit Monday afternoon. 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.\”The Youtube comments will soon be flooded with comments. Currently the original video has 641,992 of verified views and over 17,839 comments so far.
\”YES! They need to be watched! All police ain’t bad but some of them are bad!\”
\”Don’t Shoot em! Don’t Shoot em Man! He’s not mad! Don’t Shoot my dog. Do Not Shoot My Dog!\”
The officer then attempts to reach down and grab the dog leash while the dog is not looking which leads to the dog noticing it and lunging at the officer. The officer actually gets scared and pulls the trigger.
From this frame it appears the dog jumps and attempts to grab the gun from the officer and the first shot did not hit the dog but scared him. The following 3 shots actually hit the dog.
From this point there is a lot of disbelief and sighs coming from the bystanders as the dog bleeds out and is kicking his legs in pain. The video ends. \n\n My perspective is as follows:\nThere is a backstory to this that the internet is missing. First Leon has been abused by this police department for a long time, there have been times where he’s been beaten by the police for no reason at all to the point that he has 2 HUGE lawsuits against this department and then the department has dropped frivolous charges against him to try to make it right.
I agree he was excited to film and agitate and you can hear it in his voice. I assume this is because if something were to happen that was unjust he could get this on film it would support his claim for his lawsuits.
Arresting him for filming was wrong.. no matter how you spin it. Shooting the dog initially incited a lot of emotions of anger inside me also, but after watching the video a few times, you realize that the officer who fired the shot had just walked over to assist the arresting officers, and saw a dog approaching and was startled. the next set of actions are up for debate and questionable but if anything I put the blame on the arresting officers who created a scene that was Unessesary in the first place, not the assisting officer that reacted and fired the shots.
if you are interested in Leon’s Perspective of the story, here is his interview as well.
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