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Title: Cop Executes Perfectly Healthy Pony, Tells Family Animal was ‘Hit by Car’
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URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/cop-execute ... -family-animal-was-hit-by-car/
Published: Mar 5, 2015
Author: Mikael Thalen
Post Date: 2015-03-05 08:36:34 by Deckard
Keywords: Coward cops, "fear for my life", Lying badged scumbags
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Comments: 24
According to Crista Fitzgerald, owner of 30-year-old “Gir,” an American miniature horse, the family began looking for the animal on the morning of February 18 after it appeared to have escaped from its stall. “I locked his stall door, and I always do a double check,” Fitzgerald told KATU News. “The next morning I came back out before I had class in the morning, which is around 10, and he was gone.” Fitzgerald says she immediately began searching the surrounding area in an attempt to find Gir, discovering him close by at the neighbors house. “We started knocking door-to-door. And the first house we came to he was laying in their yard,” she said. Assuming the pony was merely taking a nap, Fitzgerald approached and was horrified to find blood coming out of Gir’s face. “We walked up closer and I bent down to pet him, and that’s when I saw the pool of blood behind his cheek bones,” she recalled. “The neighbor came out and told us she had called the sheriff’s department and they put him down.” Shocked, Fitzgerald picked up her phone and called the sheriff’s office in an attempt to find answers. “When I called the officer he said that he had gotten out on the highway and gotten hit by a car and broke both of his back legs,” she explained. Speaking with KATU News, Clackamas County Sheriff Office spokesman Sgt. Nathan Thompson stated that the deputy had called the Oregon Humane Society to consider handing over the pony for euthanasia before shooting it in the face. After contacting the Oregon Human Society, KATU News discovered that the alleged phone call was never actually made. The deputy did however contact a local veterinarian, stating that he would “take care of the problem on his own” despite the vet offering assistance. Learning of the deputy’s lies, Fitzgerald says she was stunned into silence. “There wasn’t very much I could say at that point because they shot the pony,” she said. “I mean, I didn’t know how to react.” Even more astonishing, Fitzgerald’s vet stated that Gir had “absolutely nothing” wrong with him prior to the shooting. Suspecting even more lies from the sheriff’s department, Fitzgerald sent the pony to Oregon State University’s veterinarian lab for an autopsy. University vets confirmed that Gir’s only injuries were from the deputy’s handgun. In fact, the vets made specific note of the pony’s “excellent body condition,” again dispelling claims about Gir’s alleged broken legs. “If I had gone out and shot the pony I’d be in jail right now,” Fitzgerald said. “That’s cruel.” In response to the family’s outcry, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed an investigation would be launched into Gir’s death. “He was part of our family… There’s no way to replace him,” Fitzgerald added. Given the deputy’s apparent dishonesty, the incident may just be the most brazen case of animal cruelty by law enforcement in recent history. **** That's one sick bastard cop.
An Oregon family is demanding answers after a sheriff’s deputy seemingly shot and killed their pony for no reason whatsoever.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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Big, big, lawsuit. Taxpayers hardest hit. The county attorney will probably resort to this defense: I don't see any confirmation of a car hitting the pony. That would be significant damage to any vehicle. There should be a report by the officer and by the car's driver. Where are the reports?
I hate yellow journalism. A different version of the story: MOLALLA, Ore. -- The Oregon Humane Society tells KATU it is now investigating a Clackamas County sheriff’s deputy's decision to shoot and kill a pony in Molalla. ...The horse was very old and couldn’t stand although it tried numerous times but continued to fall over. It appeared it was nursing one front leg and a rear leg. I did not see any markings and could not develop any information as to where the horse came from or identify an owner. I believed the horse was beyond medical help but I called the Humane Society and a local vet which they indicated it would likely need to be put down. ... Clackamas County Sheriff Office spokesman Sgt. Nathan Thompson tells KATU News the officer did believe the horse had broken legs from being hit by a car. Thompson also said he believes the deputy called the Oregon Humane Society to ask about euthanizing the horse before he shot it. A spokeswoman for OHS tells KATU News the deputy never called them. Thompson also said the deputy called a local veterinarian to ask about euthanizing the horse. KATU News reporter Hillary Lake contacted the vet about that call. He confirmed he did talk to the deputy, that his office offered assistance in euthanizing the horse, but that the officer said he would “take care of the problem on his own” and call a rendering service himself. Thompson said the deputy made the decision to shoot the horse after also consulting his supervisor.
It's the SAME version, didn't you see the imbedded link? The cop is a lying sack of shit. He lied about the pony being hit by a car, he lied about the phone call. The sniveling coward probably was "in fear for his life" when he shot the defenseless animal. ...the officer said he would “take care of the problem on his own” Yeh, the sick freak probably gets off on killing animals.
He lied about the pony being hit by a car, he lied about the phone call. You don't know that! You don't know what he said!!
[…] Sgt. Nate Thompson, a sheriff’s office spokesman, said the deputy who was dispatched to the scene believed the horse had been hit by a car and was suffering from broken hind legs. He said the deputy did not shoot the horse until after consulting a veteranarian, the deputy’s supervisor and the Oregon Humane Society, a process that took hours. “What happened is this — we were called out there by a citizen who was calling about a severely distressed horse that the caller believed had been hit by a car,” Thompson said Wednesday, March 4. “The caller, who was the property owner, said the horse was found in the front yard, but they did not know who owned the horse and had never seen the horse before.” Thompson said the horse was unable to get to its feet the entire time the deputy was there, which was for more than an hour. Both the person who found the horse and the deputy believed it had been hit by a car because of the stress the horse was suffering. “We called a vet and also the Humane Society and drew on resources to find out what to do with this animal,” Thompson said. “The animal had been in severe distress for hours, so they decided to euthenize it in the most humane way available, and it’s something we normally do.” […] http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/252651-122196- deputy-shoots-molalla-familys-pony.
The cops didn't see the pony hit by a car, there were no reports of a pony being hit by a car - the cop just "believed" that the pony was hit by a car. And took it upon himself to execute the animal. Sick role models you got there Gatslime.
While you see Infowars as your Bible, you can never refer to anyone else as "sick!"
I've responded to escaped horses that were hit by cars or injured. I've even been asked to euthanize the horse. My department had a policy NOT to euthanize any domesticated animal. As a general rule, I only shot DEER (and I did shoot a few cows, if I personally knew the farmer) hit by cars. I would make the animal owner shoot their own animal. Even if it was suffering. I'll let it suffer before I open myself to a civil lawsuit. Hell, I've even had people BEG me to shoot their mortally wounded dog or cat. I'd refuse and let it suffer and die on its own. It was not wise to shoot the horse unless it was a traffic hazard and was a threat to walk into oncoming traffic, because it was injured. I'd shoot it to keep it from walking in front of a fast moving car... but for no other reason.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
It isn't the job of police to destroy the property of others by blithely relying on the opinions of some random citizen who may or may not know anything of substance. If a cop comes and shoots your dog and then says your neighbor told him to, does that absolve the cop of responsibility in your dog's death? Of course not. Police have an obligation to investigate and establish the facts before they take such irremediable action.
Once I HIT a deer with my truck, and drove home to get It was a foggy night and it stepped from out of the
You should keep a gun concealed 24/7. You never know when you'll need it.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
The Clackamas County deputy was wrong in the here. Oregon law requires this be performed by licensed veterinarians or a person trained to administer sodium pentobarbital as prescribed in the regulations. The veterinarian the officer spoke to offered to come out and do it, the deputy said he would take care of it. The deputy should have let the veterinarian come out. source
He lives in NJ, so there's that... Majority rule believers have made it the worst state in country for ppl who believe in the second ammendment.
NJ ranks right up there with communist NY and kookifornia
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
No horse is too dead to beat.
There is something about finishing off someone's "pet".... that usually causes a lawsuit. lol I once had a distraught early 20's male that arrived to my scene, of a car vs dog MVA, where the vehicle that hit the dog, never stopped to report. Probably suspended. Anyway, He was the dogs owner. The dog was obvioudly gonna die, you could hear him gurgle blood in his lungs with every breath. He begged me to shoot hi dog. I refused. I encouraged him to put the dog in his car, and he follow me to his vet at an increased speed (something I shouldn't do for liability sakes)... the dog died as he removed the dog from his car at the vets office. I'm normally relatively stoic... but I did feel bad for him. He stated that the dog broke his chain and got loose. I didn't believe him since the dog had no collar or evidence of the other half. I decided not to issue him a ticket for a "dog at large"... he paid the ultimate price. Had I shot that dog, I'd have got a PC from the many onlookers... someone would have been traumatized. Always let the animal owner or a vet do it.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Obviously so. Shooting a large animal may lead to some suffering. Or liability or public anger as GI pointed out. The local department should have some existing policy on dealing with these common and inevitable situations. A horse or a dog being down and seeming injured is not the same as a deer that seems disabled. The deer doesn't have a loving owner who can call a lawyer, for one thing. My guess is that this won't go far in court. Miniature horses do live 30-40 years so this horse wasn't at the door to the glue factory at age 30. But it isn't like a 10yo or 20yo horse either from a jury award or settlement perspective. Lawsuits work this way with human beings too. The older are less valuable for lawsuit purposes, no matter what. And a horse or dog less than a person. Saying "in several states [out of fifty]" is less honest than saying "all except a very few [backward] states". So, while we often neglect the sheer variety of laws and especially criminal law among the various States, that is no factor. Surely the horse-shooting cop doesn't expect to be excused for shooting the horse become a couple of other states that he isn't in enforcing laws for do require cops to euthanize an apparently dying animal.
The MH went down the road to the next house and could not get up. The deputy and home owner worked for an hour trying to get the MH to stand. It appeared to both of them the MH had leg injuries. The owner of the MH said the reason the MH could not get up was because it had not received the morning pain medicine. At what point does nursing an old animal that can’t get on its feet without morning pain medication become animal cruelty within itself? I can’t answer that question.
Busybody neighbors and cops unwilling to determine ownership don't justify disposing of the property of others. And state law does not permit it. The photo makes it clear this animal appeared elderly. And that means it was an animal loved and cared for over decades. Not some mangy stray wild dog. The animal may simply not have been responsive to any strangers but only to family members. Or it could just have the sheer stubbornness of a Shetland pony whose genetics it shared. Shetlands can be extremely naughty and stubborn. It might be that it just wandered away and got lost but, when lack of pain meds bothered it, it lay down to wait to be found and get pain meds again. If the owner had given it pain meds, it might have been on its feet again in a few hours and lived another 10-15 years. Unlike a regular horse or dogs, these miniatures can grow up with your family, right into middle age. Like a parrot, they assume a different value than short-lived pets. This pony was older but not at death's door either.
“We made a mistake,” Roberts said in a statement. “Other actions could and should have been taken.” At about 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, a deputy was called to an area along Highway 213 on a report that a horse may have been hit by a car. The deputy reported that he saw a “very old” horse that “couldn’t stand” even though it was trying to do so. The deputy said he couldn’t determine where the horse came from and could not locate its owner. In his report, the deputy said “it appeared (the horse) was nursing one front leg and a rear leg.” The deputy said he called the humane society, a local veterinarian, and a supervisor to seek advice in determining what he should do. The deputy said after describing his observations to his supervisor, his supervisor agreed with him that the horse needed to be put down. The deputy then killed the horse with his shotgun. That horse, a 30-year-old American Miniature Horse named Gir, belonged to Crista Fitzgerald. After learning that her horse had been put down without her permission, Fitzgerald said there was no good reason to kill her pony and that her vet determined there was nothing wrong with it. Fitzgerald wanted a second opinion and sent Gir’s body to Oregon State University’s veterinary lab on Feb. 25. The lab determined the pony had no broken bones and was in excellent condition despite having arthritis. In his statement of apology, Roberts said, “We offer our sincere condolences to the Fitzgerald family. … “We have approached the family about exploring ways to make this as right as we can. And we are examining our own procedures when dealing with this sort of situation in the future.” But Adam Fitzgerald, Crista’s husband, told KATU News Thursday afternoon that they haven’t heard from anyone at the sheriff’s office since Monday night, when an investigator came to their home to pick up the OSU report. He said the sheriff’s office has talked to them about making things right, but Adam Fitzgerald said he feels like it is an attempt to just silence them. Fitzgerald said the family plans to sue the sheriff’s office, citing discrepancies in the police report. He said the bullet gauge used to shoot the pony was different than the gun the deputy said he used. Sheriff Roberts' statement: I grew up with horses and livestock in Clackamas County, and understand their profound value. We offer our sincere condolences to the Fitzgerald family. As detailed in the report, a judgment call was made in the field to humanely euthanize the animal; ultimately, other actions could and should have been taken. We made a mistake. We have approached the family about exploring ways to make this as right as we can. And we are examining our own procedures when dealing with this sort of situation in the future. Craig Roberts
A beloved little horse, dead only because his arthritis kept him from getting up easily. Translation: it's all over except negotiating the settlement amount and signing the non-disclosure agreements.
When I used to go backpacking I learned to carry I've carried a firearm when in wilderness areas
I'd have decorated my wall with his inquisitiveness.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
“When I called the officer he said that he had gotten out on the highway and gotten hit by a car and broke both of his back legs,” she explained.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
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Infowars
This decision to investigate comes after the pony's owners shared a report from the Oregon State University Veterinary Lab indicating the animal was not seriously hurt when the deputy decided to put the pony down.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office also released the incident report in which the deputy details his decision to put down the pony. In the report, the deputy writes the following:
Crista Fitzgerald said her family’s 30 year-old American Miniature Horse, named Gir, was fine - except for his old age. Gir was so healthy he was able to escape from his stall in a Molalla barn sometime overnight on February 18.
#3. To: Gatlin (#2)
A different version of the story:
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#4. To: TooConservative (#1)
I don't see any confirmation of a car hitting the pony.
When the Fitzgeralds’ beloved, 30-year-old pony, an American Miniature Horse, wandered out of its barn back on February 18, he made it just 150 yards down the road into a neighbor’s yard when the animal decided to lie down and rest for a while. When the neighbor called police, a sheriff’s deputy showed up and tried to get the pony named Gir to stand up. According to the sheriff’s department version, when the deputy found Gir, he believed the horse had been struck by a car and had “been in distress for hours. Fitzgeralds say that Gir did not stand up for the deputy most likely because he hadn’t received his pain meds that morning and was aching from the 150 yard stroll. source
#5. To: Deckard (#3)
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The cop is a lying sack of shit.
Yeh, the sick freak probably gets off on killing animals.
It appears that you are the sick freak who probably gets off on posting these yellow journalism articles.
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
#7. To: Gatlin (#4)
According to the sheriff’s department version, when the deputy found Gir, he believed the horse had been struck by a car...
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#8. To: Deckard (#7)
Sick role models ...
#9. To: Gatlin (#8)
#10. To: Gatlin (#6)
“What happened is this — we were called out there by a citizen who was calling about a severely distressed horse that the caller believed had been hit by a car,” Thompson said Wednesday, March 4. “The caller, who was the property owner, said the horse was found in the front yard, but they did not know who owned the horse and had never seen the horse before.”
#11. To: GrandIsland (#9)
I only shot DEER - hit by cars.
a rifle to put the thing out of its misery.
But by the time I got back there with the gun the
thing had already died.
fog at the side of the road right in front of my truck.
Whammo!
I had absolutely no time to react even though I was
moving relatively slowly. Pea soup fog it was that night.
#12. To: Chuck_Wagon (#11)
Once I HIT a deer with my truck, and drove home to get a rifle to put the thing out of its misery. But by the time I got back there with the gun the thing had already died.
#13. To: TooConservative, GrandIsland, Deckard (#10)
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It isn't the job of police… Police have an obligation to…
In several states it is the job of law enforcement officers to euthanize animals and they have an obligation to do so by law. In those states, law enforcement officers, animal control agents, veterinarians, or other designated persons may shoot or otherwise euthanize an animal in an emergency if deemed to be dangerous, injured, or sick beyond treatment. Laws have been enacted for this “emergency” euthanasia. That determination must be made not only by the person performing the euthanasia, but also by one or more witnesses. Additionally, in those cases the owner generally must be considered as "unavailable" before the animal can be euthanized. source
#14. To: GrandIsland (#12)
#15. To: Dead Culture Watch (#14)
He lives in NJ, so there's that...
#16. To: Deckard (#0)
#17. To: Gatlin (#13)
The Clackamas County deputy was wrong in the here. Oregon law requires this be performed by licensed veterinarians or a person trained to administer sodium pentobarbital as prescribed in the regulations. The veterinarian the officer spoke to offered to come out and do it, the deputy said he would take care of it. The deputy should have let the veterinarian come out. source
#18. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland (#13)
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The Clackamas County deputy was wrong in the here. Oregon law requires this be performed by licensed veterinarians or a person trained to administer sodium pentobarbital as prescribed in the regulations. The veterinarian the officer spoke to offered to come out and do it, the deputy said he would take care of it. The deputy should have let the veterinarian come out.
In several states it is the job of law enforcement officers to euthanize animals and they have an obligation to do so by law.
#19. To: TooConservative, GrandIsland (#18)
Again, the deputy was wrong. This has been established by law. Miniature horses do live 30-40 years so this horse wasn't at the door to the glue factory at age 30.
#20. To: Gatlin (#19)
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At what point does nursing an old animal that can’t get on its feet without morning pain medication become animal cruelty within itself? I can’t answer that question.
I dunno. Should we apply that standard to elderly people too?
#21. To: All (#19)
Sheriff apologizes for pony's death; 'other actions' could have been taken
Clackamas County Sheriff
#22. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland (#21)
Fitzgerald wanted a second opinion and sent Gir’s body to Oregon State University’s veterinary lab on Feb. 25. The lab determined the pony had no broken bones and was in excellent condition despite having arthritis.
We offer our sincere condolences to the Fitzgerald family. As detailed in the report, a judgment call was made in the field to humanely euthanize the animal; ultimately, other actions could and should have been taken. We made a mistake. We have approached the family about exploring ways to make this as right as we can. And we are examining our own procedures when dealing with this sort of situation in the future.
#23. To: GrandIsland, Dead Culture Watch (#12)
You should keep a gun concealed 24/7.
when off in really isolated areas. I was hiking -
alone (Dumbness #1) and unarmed (Dumbness #2) -
in the mountains of southwest Oregon - when I
met up with a mountain lion - that apparently wanted
me to be his 'friend' / lunch. Darn thing was stalking
me. Until I made enough menacing sounds that I guess
it decided I wasn't worth the trouble, and left.
ever since.
From the tip of it's nose to the end of it's tail
that cat was about 6 feet long. Nothing to mess with.
#24. To: Chuck_Wagon (#23)
From the tip of it's nose to the end of it's tail that cat was about 6 feet long. Nothing to mess with.
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