Bed-Stuy Woman's Dog Shot To Death By Cops

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — A woman is devastated after police shot her dog to death in a Bed-Stuy park on Sunday night.

Laura Stephen was at Saratoga Park around 7:30 p.m. with her family pit bull Ziggy when two cops approached them, she told the New York Post. Six-year-old Ziggy was off-leash and walking around in the bushes, Stephen said.

According to Stephen, as soon as the female officer began to speak to Stephen to summons her for having her dog off-leash, the male officer shot Ziggy twice. Cops said Ziggy was about to attack the officer. Stephen takes issue with this claim.

"I said, 'Why did you do that?' He said, 'He was running, rushing us.' It wasn't true," Stephen said.

The cops took an injured Ziggy in a crate to the vet, where he passed away. For the latest on Bed-Stuy crime, subscribe to the Bed-Stuy Patch. Stephen told the Observer that it took an hour for Ziggy to arrive at the vet. Vets tried to save him with a blood transfusion, but his heart had already stopped.

The NYPD confirmed to Patch that at 7:30 p.m. a police officer shot an "unleased pit-bull" inside of Saratoga Square Park. The officers were taken to the hospital for tinnitus, cops told the Post.

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