This is a television news report from the other day in Los Angeles from station KTTV. It's not the sort of thing I post here, but there's a reason, a sort of point of personal privilege. It's an awful story about a confrontation between neighbors and concerns a pet dog being killed, so I want to make there clear up front. You don't see anything, but it's heart-breaking. Just sick and inhumane. But if you don't like such things, I want to give a warning. I bring this up because I was made aware of it when a friend sent me the video. And it turns out that he sent the TV report because he's on the legal team of the family that suffered the loss. I told him that I hope he the nails the defendant to the wall and makes the guy's life a living hell. But he was waaaay ahead of me on that. Anyway, I wanted to bring as much attention to this story, not for my friend's sake, but because the defendant deserves as much attention for his mindless cruelty as possible. As I watched the story, by thought was, "There is no way this will be a bench trial to be heard before a judge. I am absolutely sure the plaintiffs will only agree to a jury trial, knowing that all 12 people will sit there aghast, anxiously waiting to string the guy up the moment they hear the story." As you hear the story develop, I can't imagine any defense, other than insanity. And that's not on the table. Just from the very opening five seconds of the story (I'm not exagerating), the sadness of this will be clear, because I'm not sure if I've ever seen a TV reporter so upset over the pure mindlessness of animal cruelty as this. I'm just glad that my friend is on the legal team going after this. It's the one thing that gives me great comfort.
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