Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
North Catasauqua, PA — Six years ago, when Tom Newhart and his wife rescued a baby cat and named him Sugar, they never imagined that his life would end in a hail of gunfire. However, thanks to a North Catasauqua police officer, that’s exactly what happened.
Last Sunday, Sugar escaped from the Newhart’s home. Hours later, he’d be gunned down by police.
“It’s like one of your children, you raised them, bottle fed them,” said Newhart as he began tearing up.
When Sugar escaped, a neighbor five houses down found him and decided to call the police after not being able to detain the lost cat. When the cop showed up, he pulled out a shotgun and it was open season on lost cats.
“I found the cat sitting right here,” said the neighbor, Mike Lienert.
When the officer showed up, he told Lienert that it’s “not politically correct, but if it’s injured we will put it down,” — as if being ‘politically correct’ has anything to do with killing an innocent animal.
The officer then walked into Lienert’s backyard, blew the cat away, and then told Lienert that he’d have to clean up the mess. Lienert said aside from poking at the dead cat’s body, the officer never attempted to catch the cat.
Lienert said the cat did hiss at the officer, but instead of grabbing a pair of gloves and putting the cat in a cage, this public servant did some target practice.
After recovering Sugar’s body, the Newhart’s decided to have him x-rayed by the vet to see if the officer was justified in shooting him. However, they found that Sugar was fine, and the officer had no reason to kill him.
“No lacerations, no blood, other than neck wound on body. ” Newhart said.
Newhart said he called the Mayor and the chief of police, who told him that this is not policy and has never happened before.
“This guy doesn’t deserve the badge he wears, and should be fired immediately and held accountable,” said Newhart in a Facebook post.
In a statement, the borough said it’s in the process of gathering information and conducting a review and investigation of what took place. After this process is complete, the borough will be taking the necessary and appropriate steps, according to WFMZ.
According to a local animal shelter, the officer’s actions could be considered animal cruelty. According to the Free Thought Project, the officer’s actions are considered cowardly and sadistic.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cowardly-cop-kills-familys-cat-shotgun-hissed/#cCdwQ726lbf0RBsl.99
cop calling neighbor should have his head examined. calling the cops because of a cat in his backyard. what a pussy.
your last 3 words summed up what i was going to post
Christ! This is exactly the shit I’ve just been taking notice to with the cops from what I’ve heard, read, and seen in how they’re going around indiscriminately shooting innocent bystanders and their pets out of cold blood! I hope that one day, somewhere down the line, the UNIFORMED PIGS that do this sort of Sick & Twisted Act WILL GET THEIRS AND HARDCORE! ;-/
Now I can see cops shooting dogs since they are trained by the IDF which considers Palestinians dogs…so what’s their excuse for murdering cats?
Please take note I am being very pissed off here…only psychopaths indiscriminately kill dogs and cats (though in Israel they also kill indiscriminate Palestinians…)
For shits sake, what does Israel have to do with a cop shooting a cat in North Catasauqua, Pennsylvania? Less than nothing! Why not take the left-wing, politically correct approach and blame Bush? It makes as much sense. The cop and the neighbor are POS, but I have to think they couldn’t even find Israel on a map.
DL was suggesting that the pigs in the US act like thugs toward both people and animals due to the training some US police receive from their Israeli counterparts.
Personally, I think it’s more a matter of sadistic cowards acting according to their nature. The US law enforcement community strongly attracts that type of personality and reinforces it with a tribalistic mindset closely resembling that of the Zionist Jews: ingroup-outgroup morality, incessant whining about being persecuted even as they persecute others, etc.
As for Bush, he IS actually one of those at fault for turning the US into a fascist police state “homeland,” though this cat-shooting incident is just a drop in that ocean.
I’ve been a cat lover all my life.
Had that been my cat, that sorry @ss excuse for a (barely) human being would have received same.
But only because I would have been (legitimately) ‘in fear for my life’. If he would kill a defenseless animal without a second thought, well…
As for the scumbag neighbor…
Yes, cats are wonderful creatures, as is known by anyone who has ever owned one (and treated it humanely).
Two-legged pigs, on the other hand, are loathsome and dangerous vermin that are plaguing our communities.
They are one of the most inoffensive (except when in heat, granted, but that can be ‘fixed’) animals… beautiful, graceful, comical at times, and they are far better natural hunters than the majority of domesticated dogs, so they’re great survivors.
That cat’s life had more value than the POS pig that killed him.
I’ve had cats since I was 4 years old. Each has lived with me for 18 to 20+ years. It saddens me when I loose one to old age, however this pig sickens me.
I can only hope someone puts down that pig using the same reasoning it used to put down that cat… 😡
Had a female cat back in the ’80’s/’90’s that lived 20 years. Males rarely seem to make it past 12 or 13, in my experience.