Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
July 24, 2013
Police in Henrico County, Virginia visited a family’s
home to impart the tragic news that their son had been killed in a
homicide but then proceeded to shoot the family’s pet dog Tiger.
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33-year-old Ricky Ellerbe was robbed for $15 dollars and shot to death just eight blocks from his house.
When police arrived at the family home to tell them
Ellerbe’s body had been found near an alley, the Ellerbe family pitbull,
Tiger, ran towards one of the officers from the backyard but was almost
instantly shot dead.
“They had told me my brother was dead and I’d come out
back to cry on the porch and Tiger must have heard them. He ran into the
front yard and the officer shot him,” LaToya Ellerbe told the News & Advance.
Henrico Police refused to comment on the incident.
The incident follows a spate of similar occurrences
where police escalate already fraught situations by killing dogs in what
many charge are unnecessary shootings.
In another recent incident in Ohio, police shot dead a pet wolf dog during a pursuit of a teenage suspect.
Last month, Hawthorne Police in California shot the dog
of a man who was recording a police scene on his cell phone. As Leon
Rosby was being arrested for “interference with officers,” his dog Max
escaped from the car and ran over to the owner. Video shows the dog
jumping up at a police officer – behavior which could hardly be
described as an attack – but the officer shoots the dog dead as
onlookers scream in horror.
