A police officer in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma has been charged with animal cruelty, after a video appeared online showed the officer repeatedly pepper spraying and shocking a dog with a Taser.
According to the Broken Arrow Sentinel, and a press release from the Broken Arrow Police Department, Officer William Roy Golden faces charges of animal cruelty resulting in gross injury and outraging public decency filed on September 22.
The “outraging public decency” charge is in connection with the alleged “disturbing the public peace by unholstering a firearm and threatening to shoot” the bulldog.
In August, residents of a Wagoner County area saw the officer pepper spray a 50-pound English bulldog. The disturbing video, then shared online, showed the dog actually being sprayed after the dog had wiggled out of his home and was running around loose.
And that wasn’t all. The officer is then seen shocking the dog with a Taser at least eight times. Golden had drawn his hand gun and threatened to shoot the dog. At some point, the dog named Rusty, jumped inside of Golden’s patrol car.
The dog was not acting aggressively when the officer approached, and Golden was not able to explain why he became so angry during the incident of a loose dog.
Check out the video:
Golden’s attorney has since stated important information was not included in the video. The officer has since been placed on administrative leave and authorities are awaiting all of the information before sharing their findings.
Read the entire press release:
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