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Video Shows Police Shooting 2,000-Pound Steer That Escaped Trenton Slaughterhouse

A disturbing video posted to YouTube shows authorities shooting a 2,000-pound steer that escaped a Trenton slaughterhouse Friday.

Officers shoot the steer after it ran through Trenton and Hamilton Friday morning.

Officers shoot the steer after it ran through Trenton and Hamilton Friday morning.

Photo Credit: Apney Dreams (YouTube)

The animal ran through streets of Hamilton and Trenton after escaping from Trenton Halal Packing Co. on Roebling Avenue around 9 a.m., NJ Advance Media reports.

The animal jumped a fence on Cedar Lane while authorities were trying to load it into a truck, then took off through a gas station parking lot, a post office, and then into yards in Hamilton, the outlet said.

Footage posted to YouTube by user Apney Dreams shows officers shooting the animal twice in a Hamilton yard.

Some residents were evacuated.

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