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The video was posted by Bryanna Catucci, and in the caption, she wrote, "Leaving the grocery store to find 2 cops charging at a raccoon in a car for 15 minutes until dead. You would think if it had rabies they would shoot him instead of torturing. Sad day."
The Coeymans Police Department also took to social media to confirm they had received multiple calls about a raccoon, and that the suspects seen in the video were officers from the department. The statement claimed that by racing across a parking lot and appearing to make a competition out of running over a scared raccoon, the officers were handling the situation "as quickly and humanely as possible."
"On March 12 we received numerous calls about a rabid raccoon in faith plaza. The raccoon had attempted to get into the establishment at one point. Our officer's [sic] did find the raccoon, but it was not in an area that was safe to discharge a firearm due to the proximity of pedestrians and residences. They dispatched the raccoon as quickly and humanely as possible."The video clips posted by Catucci received more than 50,000 shares in less than 24 hours, and the Facebook users who responded to it were horrified by the scene. But the most scathing comments came from users who were responding to the department's support of the incident.
Comment: So Savchenko points out the truth of what some Ukrainian officials are guilty of during the 2014 Maidan massacre, and now she is supposed to be part of a plot to blow up the national parliament in Kiev? How convenient.
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