Stupid. If they had a few people jump in the water and through a ball around, they wouldn’t have been able to keep the dog out of the water.
Maybe not handled the best way....but, of course we only get a few edited seconds. Also, you ever watch a groomer try and get a non-compliant dog into a bathing tub.
This may be something, but anybody who’s spent a day rescuing dogs from a mill, knows what real cruelty is.