NYC brute busted after officials find his dog dangling from fifth-floor banister: NYPD

The New York Post ^ | 06/30/2023 | Joe Marino

[thegagline]

A Brooklyn brute landed himself in the doghouse Friday after cops found the owner’s helpless pooch dangling from a fifth-floor banister, law enforcement sources said.

Cops collared sicko Shatik Bennett, 26, at his East Flatbush apartment just before 6 a.m. when the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad found the helpless adult pit bull, Romeo, swinging from the elevated railing by a leash that was attached to a collar.

Bennett was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after a tipster alerted cops that Bennett was allegedly abusing Romeo to make him “tough,” sources said.

“The dog is a sweetheart. Once we let him down, he just started licking the cops,” the source said.

Romeo “doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” said the source, who added that his owner “wanted to make the dog more aggressive.”

While Bennet was hauled off to the 71st Precinct, his dog was handed off to the ASPCA to be checked out

Bennett was previously arrested on March 18 after he allegedly strangled and beat his 32-year-old girlfriend with a charging cord, fan, and belt – threatening to “kill her slowly” if she didn’t fork over cash, according to police and sources.

He was released on his own recognizance from Brooklyn Criminal Court a week later.

[thegagline]

The dog abuser’s name is Shatik. Enough said.

[waterhill]

Bet his neck ain’t as strong as the pit’s. Scumbag.

[waterhill]

And yes, I have a pit cross. Sweetest dog you ever met.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This’ll boil your blood.

[higgmeister]

But the dog is OK.

[5th MEB]

BILLY was a pit bull, nothing but his Mommies big old lap dog.

For some reason he loved my wife to beyond the moon and stars.

[waterhill]

He’s a bit older than my Catahoula. She’s my gun dog. Her name is Dog. She rocks.

[waterhill]

His name is Putter. Half pit half border collie. Big Ole wimp.

He’s momma’s boy for sure!

[waterhill]

Kinda weird, but male dogs love females and female dogs love males. Truth.

[waterhill]

Kinda weird but true.

[waterhill]

Same with cats.

[waterhill]

They love humans, I mean.

[waterhill]

A female animal loves a male human and a male animal loves a female human...make sense?

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Nope. My Greta is a Boxer/Pit mix, and everyone other than me is, “Not the Mama”. She’s my little brown shadow. One of the sweetest-tempered dogs ever.

[Does so]

I just read at FR of a dog that killed TWO members of a family!

[Does so]

More:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States

[Salamander]

Let’s find out.

[Salamander]

You do not want to read my mind right now.

/chainsaw, tourniquets and lots of patience

[Salamander]

Not weird.
Biology is biology.

[Salamander]

There are always exceptions

Most of my Ibizan girls were mommy’s girls.