Police chop down man's dog for taking video of them..

[HipChick]

Fair warning: Don't watch this video if you don't want to see police arresting a man and then shooting his dog in front of him in broad daylight



http://gawker.com/video-shows-hawthorne-police-arresting-man-killing-his-641138535

A video making the rounds this evening allegedly depicts California man Leon Rosby being arrested yesterday before police shot his dog to death as he and other civilians looked on in horror. According to Rosby's attorney, Michael Gulden, Rosby was simply videotaping a police action in his Hawthorne neighborhood when cops approached him to arrest him for "obstructing an investigation," a charge Gulden calls "ridiculous." "[H]e was driving by and noticed the police activity and stopped to watch," Gulden told me in an email, "as is common when this type of activity is going on in any neighborhood."

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An interesting wrinkle to this story is that Rosby is already a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in March that accuses the Hawthorne Police Department of excessive force. That suit, which is published below, stems from an incident in July of last year in which police responded to a domestic dispute at Rosby’s home and, according to Gulden, attacked him without reason. Gulden says all the charges against Rosby in that case have since been dropped. He now plans to amend Rosby's first suit to include yesterday’s incident.

[MrScorpio]

1. Thanks for the background to the vid I posted in V&M mt

[HipChick]

2. I am not even a dog lover...but was pretty upset about this..