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Maryland police investigate ‘disturbing’ animal abuse video

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Authorities in Maryland say they’ve opened an investigation into a video posted to social media allegedly showing someone throw a duckling over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The Capital Gazette reports the video was captured on the social media application Snapchat and showed a suspect in an orange sweatshirt throw the baby animal from a moving car. A Maryland Transportation Authority spokesman told the newspaper Monday that the video was taken on the westbound span of the bridge around 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

The agency called the recording “a disturbing video of animal cruelty” in a statement Sunday, but didn’t comment further. Maryland Transportation Authority detectives have opened an investigation and ask anyone with information to contact them at 410-295-8146.

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