Ga. Man forced to cut his dog's head off...

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wo Georgia police officers killed a pet dog and then allegedly forced the owner to saw off the animal's head with a knife or risk being arrested, a new lawsuit claims.

Joe Goodwin and his girlfriend Tosha Dacon filed a lawsuit last week after their two-year-old pitbull cross Big Boy was shot dead outside their home in Crawford County two months ago.

The couple claim Crawford County sheriff's deputy Wesley Andrew Neesmith killed their beloved pooch after going to their home on December 1 to investigate reports the dog had bitten a neighbor.

The lawsuit claims fellow deputy James Hollis then ordered a distraught Goodwin to behead the dog with a knife.

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Joe Goodwin has filed a lawsuit claiming two Georgia police officers killed his dog Big Boy and then forced him saw off the animal's head with a knife or risk being arrested +6
Joe Goodwin has filed a lawsuit claiming two Georgia police officers killed his dog Big Boy and then forced him saw off the animal's head with a knife or risk being arrested

'Under extreme emotional duress and distress, and under threat of incarceration and physical harm, Plaintiff Goodwin was forced to decapitate the dog with a knife,' the lawsuit reads.

After he was forced to decapitate Big Boy, the two officers allegedly ordered Goodwin to take the animal's head to the Crawford County Health Department.

The lawsuit says that Goodwin was too 'emotionally and mentally distraught to comply' so his partner Dacon had to do it.

Goodwin, who had filmed part of the confrontation and posted it on Facebook at the time, claimed that the officers told him the dog had been shot after it lunged at a deputy.

He said the officers claimed that the dog's head had to be removed to be tested for rabies - even though Big Boy was fully vaccinated against the deadly disease.

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