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  • 2019-12-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Michael Vick Say 'I Killed All Of Them' Dogs? (en)
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  • In November 2019, the NFL announced that former football player Michael Vick would serve as one of the captains for the 2020 Pro Bowl. The news drew some online outrage because some fans were unhappy to see Vick, who was charged with running a dog fighting ring in 2007, being honored in this fashion by the league. As the outrage grew, a quote supposedly uttered by Vick started to recirculate on social media: Yeah, fine, I killed the dogs. I hung them. I slammed them. I killed all of them. I lost fucking millions all over some fucking dogs. This quote comes from a 2009 book published by Kathy Strouse, a lead investigator with the Virginia Animal Control Association who helped uncover Vick's dog fighting ring, entitled Badd Newz: The Untold Story of the Michael Vick Dog Fighting Case. Strouse writes that Vick uttered the above-displayed phrase shortly after taking a polygraph examination administered by the FBI. When the investigators informed Vick that he had failed the test, he reportedly said, Yeah, fine, I killed the dogs. I hung them. I slammed them. I killed all of them. I lost fucking millions all over some fucking dogs before being ushered away by his attorneys. The relevant paragraph from Strouse's book is highlighted below: Strouse would certainly be a person with firsthand knowledge of the going-ons in Vick's case, and we don't have reason to doubt her credibility. However, it appears that this book is the sole source for this quote and we have thus far been unable to reach Strouse to ask whether she witnessed Vick saying it firsthand or learned of it from a secondary source. While we have been unable to find other reports mentioning this specific wording, we did find several articles that discussed Vick's failed polygraph test. Those reports noted that Vick admitted to killing the dogs himself and offered some insight into Vick's mental state during the process. The New York Times reported in 2007: Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison for his role in a dog fighting operation. U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson said that Vick received the strict sentence (which exceeded the 12-to-18 months recommended by prosecutors) in part because he had not been forthcoming during the investigation about his role in the dog fighting operation. Sports Illustrated reported: (en)
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