Mostly we don’t report on brutal videos or street fights or violence for violence’s sake. We’re a peaceful wholesome people who like dogs wearing pantyhose or babies playing in the pool. So that is why it is almost frustrating when a video like this one starts making major waves and screwing up everyone’s happy mood.
This video shows a dog being horribly executed in the street after the police place the dog’s owner under arrest for filming them during a house raid in Hawthorne, California. The dog, a rottweiler, is seen sniffing around on its leash carefree, moments before being gunned down after escaping from a car window to help its detained owner.
This is, like anything else sad, a tragedy. We bring it to you because we are compelled forward only in seeking that justice be done, whatever that entails. I don’t like when the cops arrest people just for filming them — that should be a violation of the first amendment — but I don’t know enough about police procedure to comment about what is correct in regards to this dog being gunned down. I suspect we will be hearing a lot more about this incident, because videos like this show the other use of YouTube — sure it is a hub of silly videos, but it is also a collection of social conscious-raising videos.
Watch the video, don’t watch the video — it really doesn’t matter. What does matter in the long run, is that during this time where privacy and fairness are being questioned, we have a place where videos like this can be viewed by the general public. Hopefully better resolutions can be enacted and formed for future actions, otherwise what is the point?
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Don’t blame the police!!! This is what we as citizens GET! When you give up your rights to a select few what do you expect? Now think of a scenario where all the people in that area standing around we’re ARMED. Do you think the police would go around arresting random people? NO! “When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”
BLAME THE PEOPLE!