Brickell and downtown Miami residents are up in arms after a video captured a person manhandling trapped pigeons and roughly stuffing them into a trash bag on what appears to be the roof of the Neo Vertika condominium building.
In the video originally posted to the Brickell and Downtown Miami Living Facebook group on Wednesday, the man is seen taking the pigeons one by one from a cage with food in it as they fly around frantically. He then puts them in the bag, twists it closed and stuffs it into a bucket, according to the video. At one point he appears to shake a bird inside the bag. The post, which accused the man of killing the birds, also included two photos of the caged pigeons throughout the day prior to the incident.
“So the New Vertika building has apparently decided it doesn’t like how many pigeons are flying about in Brickell and is going to kill them one-by-one on full display to their neighbors,” the post reads. “Forcing us to watch them get caught and be distressed in a cage all day before the inevitable happens the next morning. Awful.”…