Police Officer Slits Throat Of Defenseless, Restrained Dog, Threatens To ‘Gut’ Her

[Feeling the Bern]

A Baltimore police officer is now facing felony animal cruelty charges after he slit the throat of a restrained shar-pei dog. Another officer, as well, has been suspended for helping him commit the crime.

According to witnesses, officer Jeffrey Bolger also threatened to “gut” the dog.

“I’m going to [f–king] gut this thing,” Bolger said as he got out of the police vehicle, according to witnesses, documented in the charging document.

The dog was relatively small and unintimidating to all who knew her. 7-year-old shar-pei named Nala had escaped from her home at Sarah Gossard’s house on Saturday. She made her way out of an accidentally open gate after Gossard had let her out in the backyard.

From 2014, but still, these are your police officers, America

Sharpeis are harmless. But if cops can do this to dogs, they can do it to people. Which is why I will go to my grave believing Freddie Gray was murdered.

[dhill926]

1. what in the holy hell of fuck....

this just makes me hurt....

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. Next, as Ghost Riders in the Sky plays on my radio, we make them hurt. Wach this dawgs!

and we make them "hurt" real bad...

[JimDandy]

2. Judge finds Jeffrey Bolger not guilty on all counts

Nov 19, 2015

Retired Baltimore police officer found not guilty in death of dog

BALTIMORE —A retired Baltimore City police officer was found not guilty Thursday in the death of a dog in Canton in June 2014

Judge Melissa Phinn cleared Jeffrey Bolger, who opted for a bench trial, of all charges in the death of the dog.

Prosecutors said Bolger slit the dog's throat in a fit of rage when arriving at the scene, calling it murder. Bolger's attorneys insist he was only trying to put the dog out of its misery.

"We are very grateful that the court based it's decision on the facts, not rumor and gossip that spread on social media, but the facts presented at trial," defense attorney Steven Levin said.

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/baltimore-officer-cleared-in-dog-killing-charges/36539820