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Texas man sentenced to 3 years in prison for kicking cat like 'a football field goal' on video

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10mo ago

Texas man sentenced to 3 years in prison for kicking cat like 'a football field goal' on video

www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/texas-man-sentenced-3-years-prison-kicking-cat-football-field-goal-vid-rcna170517

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The kick was recorded by another man, Decorius Mire, who encouraged Williams to kick the cat, prosecutors said. Mire posted the video to social media.
Mire was sentenced last year to 18 months in prison.
Just lovely people all around.
- If the cat was leashed, this horrid incident most likely would have never occurred..just sayin.
  
  It could have been a stray and it would still be fucked up. Fuck off
  
  Fuck outta here. Just sayin
  
  you are a stupid dumb fuck for saying that 😁
  
  How do you know you're on the wrong side of an issue? When you're literally excusing animal abuse.
  
  Are you aware that house cats sometimes escape or get lost? Or that some are born feral?
  I don't know the details of this particular animal's origins, but it's kind of ignorant to think that a leash was even a likely possibility.
  
  That's some real victim blaming bullshit right there. Are you gonna say next that sluts shouldn't be showing off their ankles if they don't want to get raped?
  
  No, it would have just the cat into a tether ball. Besides it was probably a stray just chilling out doing his thing as stray animals do. Can't blame a stray cat or dog for the actions of shitty people.
  
  If it was a wild animal would it be okay? They aren't going to be leashed, so I fail to see how that changes empathy.
Someone else, whose identity was not known when the case was presented to a grand jury, poured an accelerant on the cat and set it on fire, the indictment against Williams says. The animal running away on fire was also recorded on video.
Didn't Jeffrey Dahmer start out by torturing and killing cats?
- Yep.
- Not unusual for young kids to lack empathy, up to the point of tormenting and even killing animals.
  The vast majority grow up, develop a degree of additional conscience and maturity, and don't go on to become cannibal serial killers.
  
  That is not correct.
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7246522/
  Writing in 1964, Mead found that across a range of cultures, extraordinary abuse of animals (e.g., torture, killing) by children may precede more violent acts by that individual as an adult [48]. She argued that an act of cruelty towards an animal by a child could “prove a diagnostic sign, and that such children, diagnosed early, could be helped instead of being allowed to embark on a long career of episodic violence and murder (p. 22). Her writings influenced the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to add animal cruelty to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–III R (DSM-III R) in 1987. In the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) animal cruelty was retained as a symptom of conduct disorder [49,50].
  Additional studies in the 60′s also documented the Link between violence towards animals in childhood and aggressive behavior towards humans in adulthood [51,52].
Alright, that is quite enough from everyone in this thread. The problem user has been banned for 30 days, everyone else chill the fuck out. Calls for execution, extrajudicial punishment, etc. Cut it out.
Take these people of the streets, people who can torture animals like that are dangerous. It basically requires a complete lack of empathy and conscience. The only thing that keeps people like that in check are consequences. We put them in jail for torturing animals, they don’t like being in jail, so they’ll refrain from putting their wife or kids in a wood chucker later on in life.
There are lots and lots of psychopaths around us. We only notice the obvious ones that go off the rails and make the news, but there are plenty of functional psychopaths that play being human. Politicians, managers, cops, lawyers. Jobs and positions with power attract them, because they crave control.
The vast majority of them do not commit crimes. Mostly because they don’t want to deal with the hassle criminal prosecution entails. They don’t have to hurt others, they just don’t care if they do as long as it’s advantageous to them and doesn’t come back to bite them. How many people are sociopaths/psychopaths etc? About 5-10% are some numbers I have seen thrown around.
Does animal cruelty get you a bit of the same treatment as being a pedo or rapist?
- I sure hope so.
I hope he feels every second of his sentence. I love animals and it almost makes me sick to my stomach to imagine it...
Public eexecution
- Nah.

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