Pigeon Tricks

A sunny afternoon in the park. An audience.
There was a kid doing tricks with pigeons. He had five suitcases in a row and made the pigeons fly out of them, fly around, then fly back into the suitcases.
A man behind me said, "Look! He slams the suitcases shut!"
Later, when the crowd had left, and the kid left, I saw a man going up and down between the suitcases. The pigeons were inside, but broken and bloody, fluttering spasmodically now and then, jerking horribly. The man had a handgun and was aiming and shooting these pigeons in the suitcases. Some had fallen outside on the grass and these he finished off by stepping on them heavily and grinding his foot along the ground.
He made guttural sounds of disgust when he saw a pigeon that was not yet dead.