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Update on Katrina shootings

Your action is greatly needed to help put the people responsible for needlessly shooting people's pets during hurricane Katrina. The entire situation is horrendous and the judge threw the case out! The St. Bernard's Sheriff's Department will not own up to the cruelty that has taken place.

Below is a paragraph taken from Pasado's Safe Haven's website.

ST. BERNARD STREET SHOOTINGS CASE DISMISSED!
URGENT ACTION NEEDED!



NEW EYEWITNESS IN DOG SHOOTINGS COMES FORWARD TO PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN
Pasado's Safe Haven was called this week by a man who was an EYEWITNESS to St. Bernard Sheriff's officers shooting dogs and cats approximately on August 30 and 31. He and his wife remained in their house for 11 days in St. Bernard Parish with no food or water. All of their pets, 2 dogs and 3 cats, eventually perished.

He and his wife heard shots from boats in the floodwaters. He saw the individuals, "wearing St. Bernard Sheriff uniforms" who he claims he can identify in a photo line-up. He and his wife hid from the men, for fear the officers would shoot their animals.

The officers, according to this man, "picked off the dogs and cats who swam to roofs for safety".


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Posted by at February 13, 2008 7:43 p.m.
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