Teen hurt in tiger attack to face battery charge in San Jose incident

Source: San Jose Mercury news

One of the brothers injured in the San Francisco tiger attack will face an additional misdemeanor charge stemming from a September incident in San Jose.

Santa Clara County prosecutor Stuart Scott told Judge Michele McKay McCoy this afternoon that he will file a charge of battery on a police officer against 19-year-old Paul Dhaliwal.

Dhailwal and his older brother, Kulbir, are both facing two misdemeanor counts of public drunkenness and resisting arrest on Sept. 7 after police stopped them for questioning as they walked down a street near their home. Police were responding to reports of a fight and thought they looked suspicious.

The brothers fled, but Kulbir stopped and officers took him into custody. Paul continued to run from officers and was tackled. As officers cuffed and put him into a police cruiser, he kicked and pushed them, according to court documents.

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Morons.

:eyes:

You shove your thumb up its ass.

It makes the tiger submissive so it will let you go.

However, 10% of them will expect a phone call in the morning.

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His brother Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, is also charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest in the Sept. 7 incident, which happened when police intervened after seeing the brothers chase two men near their San Jose home, according to court documents.

Paul Dhaliwal is accused of hitting an officer in the chest with his forearm as the officer tried to restrain him, leading to the battery charge, prosecutor Stuart Scott said. Dhaliwal stopped resisting arrest only when an officer held a stun gun to his neck, according to a police report.

Kulbir Dhaliwal cursed at officers while kicking the security partition in a squad car, forcing police to pull him out and put him in leg restraints, the police report says.

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'em.

they were really nice guys WTF!

A San Francisco judge ruled late Tuesday that police have legal authority to examine the car and cell phones belonging to the survivors of the Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo.

The decision seems to have renewed the investigation into whether the two brothers - Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23 - taunted the animal before it escaped and killed their friend. The criminal investigation had been described last week as "inactive" by city attorney's representatives.

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It is unclear the exact legal basis for the search, but sources close to the investigation have told The Chronicle that it appeared the brothers made a pact of silence while riding together in the ambulance to the hospital.

"Don't tell them what we did," Kulbir reportedly told Paul in the ambulance, paramedics told police.

Sources also said Paul was drunk at the time of the attack, Kulbir had been drinking and both had used marijuana. Court documents indicate a bottle of liquor was spotted in the car.

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A kid is dead and a beautiful animal was gunned down. I want to get to the bottom of this. :mad:

The zoo operated a tiger enclosure from which a tiger was able to escape.

Whether it was in response to some kind of provocation is irrelevant since the zoo did not take measures to exclude the immature, mentally challenged, schizophrenic or mentally ill, from among its patrons, and the zoo further serves alcohol to its patrons, any one of whom may become drunk and act unpredictably.

The zoo had a responsibility to protect its animals from visitors as much as to protect its visitors from the animals.

If the enclosure was sufficient to serve those purposes, the incident would not have happened, no matter what any random or disturbed visitor to the zoo may have done.

I do not entirely believe that the tiger was upset by something which had happened in San Jose some weeks earlier, although I do understand that bored tigers may indeed read police reports in the local papers when those materials find their way into the cages, and that tigers do sometimes get carried away by a sense of community citizenship when someone with an arrest record visits a zoo. This is, of course, why most zoos do not admit patrons with criminal records.