The YouTuber who accidentally uploaded raw footage showing her hitting her pet dog is being investigated by the police
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Police have launched an animal cruelty investigation into a Los Angeles-based YouTuber who accidentally uploaded a video online that showed her hitting and appearing to spit on her dog.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Business Insider that their animal cruelty task force is aware of the situation with YouTuber Brooke Houts, and are "looking into the matter," an LAPD spokesperson said.Additionally, the LA chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been alerted of the incident after receiving multiple reports from concerned individuals, the organization wrote on Twitter. Animal rights organization PETA has publicly called on YouTube to remove Houts from the platform.
Neither YouTube nor Houts has responded to Business Insider's requests for comment.Houts has since issued an apology on Twitter to "anyone who has been effected negatively by the footage." In an extensive statement written in the iPhone Notes app, Houts wrote that she had been having a "less than exceptional" week and said she was showing him "as a dog parent" that his behavior was unacceptable.
"I am not going to play the 'victim card' or anything of that sort, but I do want to point out that I am rarely as upset as what was shown in the footage," Houts wrote on Twitter. "Anyone who knows me personally know I have an immense love for animals, including my own ... He was not hurt, nor has he ever been purposefully hurt by me."
Many of the 31,000 users who have commented on Houts' apology tweet have called on the dog to be taken out of Houts' care. The YouTuber Ethan Klein, who runs the comedy channel H3H3 productions, volunteered on Twitter to adopt the dog at "any price."Copyright © 2021. Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved.For reprint rights. Times Syndication Service.
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