Authorities investigate after video shows man punching dog
CLINTON TOWNSHIP (AP) — Authorities in Macomb County are trying to find a man seen in a video striking a dog.
WDIV-TV reports that the video was sent to the county’s Animal Control office Friday and shows the dog being punched in the head.
Animal Control chief Jeff Randazzo says officers used a search warrant Friday to gain access to a home in Clinton Township. The dog and the man were not there. Randazzo said another dog was removed from the home.
Authorities also are looking for the person who recorded the video.
Police officer fired for Klan document seen at his home
MUSKEGON (AP) — A white Michigan police officer whose house had an apparent Ku Klux Klan document on display and for sale has been fired.
Muskegon City Manager Frank Peterson says Charles Anderson was fired after a disciplinary hearing last week. Peterson says a redacted version of the inquiry report would be released to the public soon.
The Muskegon Police Department opened an internal investigation of Anderson after a potential homebuyer, who is black, reported seeing a framed KKK application at Anderson’s home.
Anderson served on the Muskegon police force since 1997. He was cleared of wrongdoing in the 2009 shooting of an unarmed black man, who, an investigation found, used Anderson’s police radio and another object to severely beat the officer.
Judge allows destruction of expired Ohio lethal drug supply
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge is allowing an Ohio prison pharmacist to destroy the state’s supply of expired lethal injection drugs.
The decision by U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Merz in Dayton on Friday follows the state’s request to eliminate the three-drug supply. The state’s request was unopposed by lawyers representing death row inmates.
Executions have been on hold in Ohio while the prisons system looks for new supplies of lethal drugs.
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who opposed using expired drugs for executions, has ordered a new lethal injection protocol.
The governor says finding new drugs is complicated by concerns that drug companies who supply the state with pharmaceuticals for various purposes will cut off supplies if some drugs are used for executions.
Pigeon poops on lawmaker discussing pigeon poop problem
CHICAGO (AP) — A pigeon apparently didn’t think much of a lawmaker’s ideas to address a messy situation at a Chicago Transit Authority stop known by some as “pigeon poop station.”
WBBM-TV reports that one of the birds did its business on the head of Democratic State Rep. Jaime Andrade as he was discussing the problem with a reporter outside of the Irving Park Blue Line station.
During the interview, Andrade rubbed the top of his head and said, “I think they just got me.” They did.
The sidewalks outside of the station are covered in bird waste and feathers.
Andrade has been trying to fix the problem. One of his ideas is to ask the CTA to install a hose line for power washing when it constructs new escalators at the stop.
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