Woman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog
A victory yell should not end with a dead dog and a violated home.
A Black woman yelled, “Oh my god,” because the Knicks won, someone called the LAPD, and police reportedly responded by bursting into her apartment and killing her golden doodle.
According to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s Threads post, the dog was wearing a Knicks jersey and ran over when police entered the apartment. The dog’s death is horrifying, but it is not the whole story. This is also about a Black woman whose ordinary joy was treated as a threat serious enough to summon armed police into her home.
LAPD knows the difference between large-scale post-win riots and a woman cheering in her home. They tend to hide when it’s an actual riot.
A victory yell should not end with a dead dog and a violated home.
And I’m sure the person who called thought the woman was calling for help. I guess we should be glad she wasn’t engaged in hot sex-who knows who would have ended up dead in that scenario.