Officer caught on cam kicking dog

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A doorbell video posted by a canine proprietor is pugnacious to watch.

But, Terre Haute constabulary say, viewers request to enactment the video into position and spot what fto up to the officer’s actions.

Haley Richey posted 22 seconds of video connected Twitter. At 2 seconds in, viewers tin spot an serviceman approaching a location with a flashlight and a canine barking.

Five seconds later, viewers spot the serviceman kicking the dog. He continues to footwear the canine 5 times earlier it runs disconnected the porch.

Richey posted connected her Twitter leafage that idiosyncratic broke into her home, and her dogs ran the intruder off.

After thousands of online comments, the Terre Haute Police Department posted its ain video from the officer’s assemblage camera connected its Facebook page, on with a effect to Haley’s claims. 

Terre Haute constabulary accidental they were called Monday to the 1700 artifact of Ohio Street for an assertive achromatic pit bull that had been charging astatine everyone that went by, not for an attempted break-in astatine the home.

The idiosyncratic who called constabulary lives adjacent doorway and told constabulary the canine had bitten a kid and a mailman successful the past.

A fewer seconds into the officer’s assemblage camera video, the serviceman shines a flashlight toward the dog, and not 1 but 2 dogs are seen lunging astatine the serviceman portion helium is connected the structure arsenic helium is making his mode to the neighbor’s house. The dogs proceed to travel astatine the officer, and yet the dogs permission the yard, the officer’s video shows.

The bull past heads to Haley’s home, wherever helium is met by a achromatic pit bull, the officer’s video shows; the serviceman approaches the canine and starts kicking.

Audio was eliminated from the officer’s video to owed language.

Haley posted connected societal media that her household spent hours looking for the dogs. She called the constabulary conscionable earlier 11 p.m. Monday to study idiosyncratic whitethorn person been successful the location and fto the dogs out earlier. Police recovered thing missing oregon immoderate video showing an intruder. The achromatic pit bull returned to the location aboriginal Tuesday morning. 

Police wrote the dog’s owner six tickets for counts of prohibited unsafe animals and not having the dogs restrained oregon immunized. 

Terre Haute constabulary besides accidental that successful May 2020, a achromatic pit bull astatine the aforesaid code spot an 11-year-old girl, and the proprietor was ticketed past for nonaccomplishment to restrain a canine resulting successful an onslaught oregon bite. 

Police accidental they contacted the Haley household several times after the video was posted asking if they were funny successful filing a complaint. They declined to bash so.  

The proprietor of the canine was invited to spot the constabulary assemblage camera video and declined the offer.

The Terre Haute Police Department has turned implicit each the video to the Vigo County Prosecutor’s Office.

The officer has been placed on administrative assignment duty. 

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