was well known in the neighborhood<\/a> where it lived for years, and some residents had come to call him Sugar. The bird was also known for its disposition, especially toward men.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen it came to males, he could be a little, well, aggressive,\u201d Gina Davis, a Pasadena schoolteacher, told The Times in a previous interview.<\/p>\n
She said the bird had chased off her husband and a neighbor. Davis said her husband named the bird Sugar.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it was white, not because of his personality,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Davis said she checked her home security footage and was shocked to see what caused Sugar\u2019s condition: A postal worker was caught on camera throwing a rock at the bird and later striking it with a club or stick.<\/p>\n
Davis said the video showed the bird following the mail carrier to his truck.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe peacock was just standing in front of his truck,\u201d she said. \u201cHe got out of his truck and had a club or stick or something and hit it,\u201d in the head or neck.<\/p>\n
Pasadena Humane said it rushed the bird to its Wildlife Center, where vets found swelling but no broken bones.<\/p>\n
The incident prompted an investigation by animal service investigators. <\/p>\n
Singh is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Postal Service worker seen on video beating Pasadena\u2019s beloved white peacock was charged with animal cruelty,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18642,16520,7,9,8,191720,16054,9831,174421,4456,348,69176,191721,9455,72722,57829,6187,5050],"class_list":["post-491765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-bird","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-charanjit-singh","tag-court-record","tag-first-time","tag-gina-davis","tag-incident","tag-investigation","tag-mail-carrier","tag-pasadena-white-peacock","tag-peacock","tag-postal-worker","tag-sugar","tag-truck","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}