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A Brooklyn brute landed himself in the doghouse Friday after cops found the owner’s helpless pooch dangling from a fifth-floor banister, law enforcement sources said.
Cops collared sicko Shatik Bennett, 26, at his East Flatbush apartment just before 6 a.m. when the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad found the helpless adult pit bull, Romeo, swinging from the elevated railing by a leash that was attached to a collar.
Bennett was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after a tipster alerted cops that Bennett was allegedly abusing Romeo to make him “tough,” sources said.
“The dog is a sweetheart. Once we let him down, he just started licking the cops,” the source said.
Romeo “doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” said the source, who added that his owner “wanted to make the dog more aggressive.”
While Bennet was hauled off to the 71st Precinct, his dog was handed off to the ASPCA to be checked out.
Bennett was previously arrested on March 18 after he allegedly strangled and beat his 32-year-old girlfriend with a charging cord, fan, and belt – threatening to “kill her slowly” if she didn’t fork over cash, according to police and sources.
He was released on his own recognizance from Brooklyn Criminal Court a week later.
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