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Title: Cop Executes Perfectly Healthy Pony, Tells Family Animal was ‘Hit by Car’
Source: Infowars
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
Views: 3315
Comments: 24

An Oregon family is demanding answers after a sheriff’s deputy seemingly shot and killed their pony for no reason whatsoever.

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.”

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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.

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That's one sick bastard cop.

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#6. To: Deckard (#0)

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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.”

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http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/252651-122196- deputy-shoots-molalla-familys-pony.

Gatlin  posted on  2015-03-05   11:31:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#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.”

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.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-05   14:29:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: TooConservative, GrandIsland, Deckard (#10) (Edited)

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

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

Gatlin  posted on  2015-03-05   16:21:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland (#13) (Edited)

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.

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.

In several states it is the job of law enforcement officers to euthanize animals and they have an obligation to do so by law.

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.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-05   17:07:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#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.

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.

Gatlin  posted on  2015-03-05   17:26:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#20. To: Gatlin (#19) (Edited)

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?

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.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-05 18:20:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: All (#19)

Sheriff apologizes for pony's death; 'other actions' could have been taken

“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
Clackamas County Sheriff

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Sheriff-apologizes-for-ponys- death-other-actions-could-have-been-taken-295253951.html

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