{"id":337884,"date":"2025-12-08T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337884\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:37:14","slug":"atlanta-police-officer-tortured-her-labrador-dog-by-breaking-her-bones-disfiguring-her-spleen-before-killing-her-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337884\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Police officer tortured her Labrador dog by breaking her bones, disfiguring her spleen before killing her: indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to breaking her bones, it also accuses Zabria Bridges of &#8220;seriously disfiguring Layla&#8217;s spleen,&#8221; before she ended up beating the dog to death.<\/p>\n<p>DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 An Atlanta Police officer was arrested and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after an indictment alleged that she tortured her dog before killing it.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment, obtained by 11Alive, alleges that Zabria Jarie Bridges intentionally broke her dog Layla&#8217;s bones. The indictment said that Layla was a Labrador Retriever Mix and was inflicted &#8220;severe or prolonged physical pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to breaking her bones, it also accuses Bridges of &#8220;seriously disfiguring Layla&#8217;s spleen,&#8221; before she ended up beating the dog to death. The incident happened in Douglas County.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Bridges was placed on administrative leave by the Atlanta Police Department and the department said &#8220;this matter is being taken very seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Atlanta Police Department holds its personnel to the highest standards of conduct, both on and off duty,&#8221; the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Her mugshot can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c2eb859a-0aea-402a-8944-8df0d60c97b1_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c2eb859a-0aea-402a-8944-8df0d60c97b1_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to breaking her bones, it also accuses Zabria Bridges of &#8220;seriously disfiguring Layla&#8217;s spleen,&#8221; before she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-337884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}