Animal lovers are calling for justice after two canine had been shot lifeless by the Metropolitan police in London, United Kingdom.
According to the Doncaster Free Press, the Staffordshire bull terriers named Marshall and Millions had been owned by 46-year-old homeless man Louie Turnbull.
Police shot the canine after experiences that they mauled down a girl. Turnbull, in the meantime, was tasered and arrested for the cost of proudly owning a harmful and uncontrolled canine.
“They pulled out all their weapons. They were intimidating me and the dogs. And all they were doing was trying to protect me,” Turnbull advised animal advocates demonstrating in entrance of Scotland Yard earlier this month.
“I had them on the lead, I was pulling them away and they just murdered them. I can’t sleep,” he added.
Protests and vigils have been held by canine lovers and a web-based petition was additionally setup to name for justice and an investigation into Marshall and Millions’ deaths.
“This is not the first time this has happened with people’s beloved pets and us the public want more stringent rules into the way that these situations are handled, I believe this situation could [have] been handled very differently!” stated petition organizer Kerry Anne Zealey.
As of this writing, over 64,000 individuals have signed the petition.
“Marshall and Millions” can also be trending on Philippine Twitter on Thursday as Filipino canine lovers sympathize with what occurred to the canine.
—MGP, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
