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North Carolina Cop Under Fire For Choking, Hanging Police Dog By Its Leash

The latest animal abuse scandal has been caught on tape, and it really is cringeworthy to watch.

On March 4, a video surfaced showing what appeared to be a North Carolina cop roughly handling a German Shepherd named Zuul during a training exercise. The pooch seems to have escaped the cop car after training only to immediately receive severe punishment from the officer.

At first, the cop yelled for Zuul to stop — which the dog did — but then the man hanged the poor dog by the leash WHILE WALKING HIM TO THE COP CAR! Once the sergeant got him into the car, he forced the poor dog inside and then slapped him hard! The footage caught all of this very, very, clearly.

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What. The. Actual. F**k.

But it gets worse, y’all. At the same time, someone can be heard saying:

“We’re good, no witnesses.”

For real?? Oh, okay. Right. Yeah, we don’t want people like that anywhere near any animal. Poor Zuul!

Fortunately, the video footage caught all of this, and Zuul has been separated by the officer by the Salisbury Police Department. Except when Police Chief Jerry Stokes opened up about the case, he didn’t seem all too convinced that the anonymous officer had been in the wrong. He said in a statement:

[Image via Fox 46]

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