Maryland roommates claim police detained them at gunpoint for no reason and shot their pet dog: "No remorse"

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Maryland roommates claim police detained them at gunpoint for no reason and shot their pet dog: "No remorse"
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Roommates who sued a Maryland county Monday claim police officers illegally entered their apartment without a warrant, detained them at gunpoint without justification and unnecessarily shot their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

The dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, did not attack the three officers who entered the apartment before two of them shot the animal with their firearms and the third fired a stun gun at it, according to the federal lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks at least $16 million in damages over the June 2, 2021 encounter, which started with Prince George's County police officers responding to a report of a dog bite at an apartment complex where the four plaintiffs lived. What happened next was captured on police body camera video and video from a plaintiff's cellphone.

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“ The county offered to compensate Umana for her veterinary bills if she agreed to refrain from publicly speaking about the shooting, but she rejected the offer, according to her lawsuit.”

Sickening

"or I'll sue you and the city for 10x that? Eat my dead dogs dick you insufferable pigs."

Closer to a thousand times that much, if not more actually.

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