{"id":126607,"date":"2026-01-21T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126607\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:16:08","slug":"graphic-video-shows-child-stomping-duck-to-death-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126607\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic video shows child stomping duck to death in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 21, 2026 at 11:54 AM<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Viewer discretion advised Police seek kid who they said stomped duck to death in Fort Lauderdale  Fort Lauderdale police asked for the public\u2019s help Wednesday in identifying a child who they said was caught on camera stomping a duck to death.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police asked for the public\u2019s help Wednesday in identifying a child who they said was caught on camera stomping a duck to death over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said home surveillance camera video from Sunday shows a child at a home near the 300 block of Southwest Eighth Avenue chasing a duck to the side of a house, pinning the animal with his hands, and then stomping it until it died before fleeing the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said the agency\u2019s animal cruelty unit is still working to identify the attacker. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is urged to contact the Fort Lauderdale Police Department or Officer Lowe of the animal crimes unit at 954-579-4944 or by emailing alowe@flpd.gov. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest. Tips can be submitted anonymously through Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477, online at browardcrimestoppers.org, or by dialing TIPS from any cellphone in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 21, 2026 at 11:54 AM Warning: Viewer discretion advised Police seek kid who they said stomped duck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-126607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}