17-year-old arrested after hurling kitten off fifth-floor balcony in Jerusalem

Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy after he was caught on video throwing a kitten from the fifth-floor balcony of his apartment building in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood, a police spokesman says.

Jerusalem cops caught and arrested the suspect in northern Israel, then brought him back to the city for questioning.

The video documenting the incident shows the young man holding a kitten, then proceeding to hurl it from the rooftop as his friends behind the camera laugh in the background.

“We take any harm to animals seriously, and will continue to operate in online spaces to locate and deal with these wrongdoings, decisively and without compromise,” the police say in a statement.

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