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=== Vine Kitten Kicker === | |||
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'''Vine Kitten Kicker''' is a [[shock video]] that was uploaded on [[wikipedia:Vine_(service)|Vine]] on August 2013 by '''Walter Easley.''' | |||
The video depicts Walter talking to the viewer about the kitten that is about to be kicked. After, Walter puts a small orange kitten off of his house's porch. A few seconds later, he kicks the small orange kitten and the small orange kitten meowing loudly then running away in distress, then the video ends. | |||
==== Aftermath ==== | |||
The Vine video was highly unnoticed, until August 11th when Redditor u/toofrat submitted the Vine video to the r/rage subreddit and yielded over 1,800 up votes and 460 comments in the first 48 hours. In the comments, redditors would post the doxx of Walter in the comments, but was quickly deleted by moderators. On the same day [[4chan]] would get involved and users began posting his home address and Google Maps screenshots of his possible residence, to which Easley responded by taunting his detractors via Twitter. Also on August 11th, the Internet news site The Daily Dot reported on the developing story, noting that Easley is "only adding fuel to the fire" by openly taunting his detractors and threatening to kick more cats in yet another Vine video, though the latter was subsequently deleted from his account. The same day but on a evening, a document allegedly containing Easley’s address, phone number and other personal information was released via Pastebin, also while an online petition titled “Bring Water Easley, the kitten kicker, to justice” was launched on The Petition Site, urging the Humane Society of South Carolina to bring him to justice. On August 13th, The Daily Dot published a follow-up article reporting that Easley has made his Twitter[5] feed private and 4chan users has identified the owner of the cat as Twitter user @buck4411. | |||
==== Arrest ==== | |||
On August 19th, Easley was arrested by the Orangeburg County police on charges of animal cruelty. According to the local daily newspaper Times and Democrat and the Daily Dot,upon being questioned by animal control and law enforcement officers, the 17-year-old teenager reportedly claimed that the Vine video was staged to only make it seem as if he was kicking the cat, when he had "tossed it into the air with his foot". However, he later said that he had thrown the cat. He pled guilty and was sentenced to a pre-trial intervention, the details of which are sealed, instead of the maximum sentence for misdemeanor animal abuse of 60 days in jail. | |||
== Documentation == | == Documentation == | ||
