[Mila]

"Because they enjoyed it. It was fun for them to kill the dogs."

At his press conference yesterday, the mayor said practically the same thing. He said that it seemed to him that the police shot the dogs for sport.

[Mila]

I found the transcript of the mayor's remarks of yesterday and here is the exact quote with a little extra that I had forgotten and which, IMO, makes the fact that the dogs were killed even more atrocious.

"Sheriff Jackson said yesterday that his deputies were "engaged" by our dogs. This is simply false. The deputies opened fire and executed our dogs the very second they broke down our front door. The thoughtless execution of Payton and Chase was premeditated, without provocation, and appears to have been done for sport.

The officers were aware of the presence of our dogs before they broke down our front door. They had seen Payton earlier when the undercover officer delivered the package to our house. They had seen me walk both dogs through the neighborhood moments before they invaded our home. In fact, I waved to them.

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