PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Two canine have been launched right into a homeless encampment, sending two to the hospital, in response to an area group.
According to a Facebook put up from LULA, a corporation that helps the homeless, the 2 canine had been launched into the encampment by an individual who didn’t dwell in an encampment. The canine then attacked individuals within the encampment, sending two to the hospital. The assault lasted about quarter-hour.
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The put up comes after many experiences of metropolis employees demolishing the encampment started circulating.
“We noticed a number of pictures of council employees eradicating gadgets from the sector as we speak and wished to let individuals know that this was completed on the request of outreach employees. The metropolis was NOT there to demolish the camps,” the put up reads.
The put up mentioned one of many individuals hospitalized wanted surgical procedure and the opposite was launched from the hospital at midnight.
Police arrived on the scene and needed to kill one of many two canine after unsuccessfully hitting it, and took the opposite into custody.
The put up additionally mentioned the particular person despatched residence can be despatched again in paper robes and hospital socks, with canine chunk marks all the way down to the bone, within the bloody tent the place the assault occurred. LULA is presently preserving this particular person in a resort and being handled by a road medical group.
Because of the big quantity of blood within the encampment, metropolis employees cleaned up a few of the gadgets as requested by a supervisor, the put up mentioned.
A message despatched to a Peoria Police Department spokesperson concerning the incident was not instantly returned
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