Police are investigating after a disturbing video recorded in East Williamsburg appears to show a couple abusing a dog on a Brooklyn street.<\/p>\n
The video, which has been shared widely online, appears to show a man and woman hitting the dog while yanking and swinging the animal by its chain. A witness who recorded the encounter said he was driving on Morgan Avenue while making an Uber Eats delivery when he saw the abuse and began filming.<\/p>\n
The witness, who did not want to be identified on camera, then confronted the couple in the street and later called police.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt disgusted, heartbroken, and I wanted to scoop that poor dog up and take it home,\u201d said Caroline Plank, a volunteer with AMA Rescue.<\/p>\n
Police said the incident happened around Feb. 28. Investigators said the couple was last seen walking on Morgan Avenue before turning onto Ingraham Street. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
Plank urged anyone who recognizes the people in the video to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo the right thing and speak up,\u201d Plank said. \u201cSpeak up for this poor animal who can\u2019t speak out and ask for help itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ASPCA said it is aware of the situation and is assisting the NYPD with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a disturbing video recorded in East Williamsburg appears to show a couple abusing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49277,3121,13003,98,100,99,1958,6530,2537,49276,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-160760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-abused-dog","tag-animal-abuse","tag-aspca","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-east-williamsburg","tag-neglected-dogs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}