The roommates claim officers unnecessarily shot their pet dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

Roommates who sued a Maryland county Monday claim police officers illegally entered their apartment without a warrant, detained them at gunpoint without justification and unnecessarily shot their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

The dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, did not attack the three officers who entered the apartment before two of them shot the animal with their firearms and the third fired a stun gun at it, according to the federal lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks at least $16 million in damages over the June 2, 2021 encounter, which started with Prince George’s County police officers responding to a report of a dog bite at an apartment complex where the four plaintiffs lived. What happened next was captured on police body camera video and video from a plaintiff’s cellphone.

  • @foggy
    51•1 year ago

    When police break the law, they should be tried on a matter of whether or not the taxpayers are responsible for what occurred.

    People like this should never get our tax dollars spent on their well-being.

    We should be way more angry about this than we are.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
      25•1 year ago

      When police break the law, they should be tried

      that would be a hell of a start

      We should be way more angry about this than we are.

      A lot of time, effort and money is spent convincing people that the police and their abuse are things that only happens to those people.