Victoria Preston v. The City of Rochester and Mitchell Leach

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK _______________________________________ VICTORIA PRESTON, DECISION AND ORDER Plaintiff, 6:22-CV-06525 CDH v. THE CITY OF ROCHESTER and MITCHELL LEACH, Defendants _______________________________________ BACKGROUND On February 14, 2020, defendant Mitchell Leach, an officer of the Rochester Police Department, shot and killed a dog, Zyria, in whom plaintiff Victoria Preston (“Preston”) claims to have had an ownership interest. (See Dkt. 46 at 1).1 Preston “contends that Zyria’s death was part of ‘an epidemic of police killing pet dogs’ in…