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Petition: Help Prosecute Cop Who Has Killed Multiple Dogs

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A police officer in Iowa just shot a family’s two-year-old dog to death – right in front of two kids and a mom. All this only happened a few weeks after he killed another dog with his police cruiser, which he described as “smoking a dog” to a colleague.

Yet the Davenport, Iowa police department is claiming that he did nothing wrong, and he has faced zero consequences.

During this most recent incident, officers received a call about four dogs wandering the neighborhood and appearing aggressive. This cop never found those dogs. Instead, he slowly pulled into an alley alongside a family’s home where two elementary school-aged children were playing with their dog, Myst.

The officer told the young children to get a leash for Myst, even though he was in their own front yard. The kids ran off to comply with his order, and in the meantime, Myst ran up to inspect the cop, sniff him, bark a bit, and ran away back towards the house.

As the dog was running away – and when they were only a few feet from the mom and children – the officer opened fire. He fired two shots, even though he was far away from the animal by that point, and could have easily hit the children or mother.

Myst the dog writhed in pain, cried out, and slowly died in front of the young boys.

Please sign this petition to send this reckless, dog-murdering man to prison!

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