Queensland police shoot pet dog after running it over as distressed residents watch on

Confronting footage has emerged of police shooting dead a pet dog as it lay prone in the middle of a street in front of screaming onlookers, after they accidentally ran over the animal in an outback mining city. The graphic videos, posted to social media on Sunday afternoon, appear to show one resident in distress and being led away wailing and pulling at her hair in distress as a shot rings out. The ABC has reported the dog’s name as Smokey, and the owner as a 15-year-old girl. Queensland police issued a statement on Monday saying that at about 3.40pm on Sunday, police in a marked vehicle left an address in Mill Crescent in Mount Isa “at low speed”. “A dog is believed to have come from under or behind a parked car and was run over,” the statement read. “Neither the driver nor the passenger saw the dog prior to the impact.” Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email According to the statement, a “supervising officer attended the scene within three minutes” to find the dog “showing obvious signs of trauma injuries and was in distress”. “The decision was made to euthanise the dog immediately to avoid further suffering for the dog,” the statement read. …