– Detroit police to pay $100,000 for shooting a dog:
The City of Detroit will pay a pet owner $100,000 after a police officer shot his dog dead while it was chained up beside his home.
Babycakes, a Dogue de Bordeaux, was on a 10-foot leash beside Darryl Lindsay’s home in the 11600 block of Strathmoor in January 2015 when Detroit police surrounded the house. They were there to question Lindsay, though he was never charged with a crime, according to his lawsuit filed last year in U.S. District Court.
Officer Darrell Dawson killed the dog in a shooting captured on police video, according to the lawsuit.
“Dash camera video shows Defendant Dawson walk toward Babycakes in her driveway to a position just beyond the reach of Babycakes’ steel cable leash, pause, aim and shoot her twice with his department-issued … 40-caliber handgun, striking Babycakes in the chest
area,” according to the suit.
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