PETA to Army: Investigate sheep-beating video

This video is on their site. The person described as "a soldier" is in civilian clothes, so who knows how they figured out it was a soldier?

PETA to Army: Investigate sheep-beating video
By Joe Gould - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 17, 2012 17:08:33 EST
The animal rights group PETA is calling on the Army to investigate a video depicting what appears to be soldiers watching while a sheep is beaten with a baseball bat.

In the video, posted to PETA’s website Jan. 13, the sheep is repeatedly clubbed by a man in civilian clothes amid laughter and whooping.

“When you have a group standing around and gratuitously and ineptly smashing at this poor animal, the Army needs to say this won’t be tolerated,” said PETA President Ingrid Newkirk told Army Times.

She said PETA was sent the video anonymously, and it has since been posted online. She said has heard from current and former service members who condemn the beating, and she is called on the “top brass” to do the same.
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From PETA

Sheep-beating Video Surfaces

Written by PETA 3 hours ago

UPDATE: PETA has just been informed that the Army never received the letter and apparently never received the thousands of calls or tweets from PETA supporters, including those from Hollywood songwriter Diane Warren, either. We will keep you posted as we hear more.

The following was originally posted January 13, 2012:

Last year, a scandalous video emerged of a U.S. marine throwing a puppy off a cliff. Now there is this video of a soldier repeatedly beating a sheep with a baseball bat to the whoops and laughter of other soldiers who are looking on. I would say "beating to death" because that is probably what happened, but we do not know the upshot. We only know, from watching the video and seeing the mood of the soldiers -- and what appears to be a local lad who arrived with the animal -- that the sheep could only have come to a very nasty end. He or she tries to rise several times but the soldier continues to thwack away amid the laughter.
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