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A person identified as confidential witness No. 1 said Vick placed pets in the ring against pit bulls owned by ?Bad Newz Kennels? at least twice and watched as the pit bulls ?caused major injuries.?
The witness said Vick and co-defendants Purnell Peace and Quanis Phillips ?thought it was funny to watch the pit bull dogs belonging to Bad Newz Kennels injure or kill the other dogs.?
Vick was administered a polygraph test by the FBI in October 2007 and denied taking part in the killing of dogs in mid-April. When told he had failed that part of the test, Vick recanted his story and admitted to helping hang six to eight underperforming dogs.
The dogs were killed by shooting, hanging, electrocution and drowning, and in at least one instance, according to one of the witnesses, when Vick and Phillips killed a red pit bull by ?slamming it to the ground several times before it died, breaking the dog?s back or neck.?
According to the report, the three men hung the dogs ?by placing a nylon cord over a 2 X 4 that was nailed to two trees located next to the big shed. They also drowned approximately three dogs by putting the dogs? heads in a five gallon bucket of water.?
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I hope that Michael Vick truly has been rehabilitated, given the nature of the brutally inhumane and heinous crimes he was involved in and responsible for. Personally, I wish he would have been banned from football. I say let him prove himself rehabilitated in a more humble way, such as working at an animal shelter.
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