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This is the horrific moment police officers allegedly strangled a stray dog to "save the paperwork".

The officers killed the poor animal in front of laughing locals in San Nicolas de los Garza, in Mexico.

They'd spotted the dog while on patrol in the city and decided it to kill it because it didn't appear to have an owner.

As they discussed the best way to get rid of the animal, local man Jocelin Batista filmed the incident while standing next to a small group of men who stood by laughing.

He said: "They were saying they didn't want to have to fill in the paperwork explaining why they had used a bullet.

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"First of all they got the dog to come near them by throwing it food, and then they looped a rope around its neck.

"They were then able to use the rope to strangle the dog, and you could see its head turning red.

"I was a bit surprised the police officers would kill a dog like that and if been anybody else I might have said something, but what can I do?

"These are police officers who must know what the law is."

The video shows officers luring the animal toward them but the actual moment the animal was strangled has been cut to avoid causing more distress.

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It shows that once the animal was lifeless and apparently dead, it was thrown into the back of a police car and driven off to be dumped.

In Jocelin's commentary for the video he's heard saying: "Here we see what the police does when a dog attacks another dog.

"Here we can see they grab him with a rope.

"What an effective method they use!"

A short while later he adds: " Don’t kill him, he’s a living being!"

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And at the end he says: "This is subhuman.

"This is what the police do.

"Is this a solution?

"They want to make this place better by mistreating animals?"

But Enrique Lh added: "Obviously that dog was a stray and since our police are very capable and modern they used the traditional humane 21st century method – a rope around the neck."