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I have a sad and genuinely infuriating story...
A little donkey named HeeHaw was sh0t and k*lled... by police... in the middle of the night... on his own family's farm.
His "crime"? He ran up to the officers braying, being a friendly donkey.
This happened in Polk County, Georgia, around 12:45 in the morning.
According to the family that owns Elsberry Riding and Farm, officers came onto their property, into the pasture, searching for a missing person. The family says they did it without permission.
And there was HeeHaw. A small, curious donkey doing what donkeys do. The family says he ran up to the officers braying to greet them.
The family says the officers tried to TASE him first and then one of them sh0t him, and he passed away.
A small donkey trotting up braying is not a threat.
You do not need a taser, and you SURE AS HELL don't need a bullet, for a friendly farm animal, any Southern person knows that.
To their credit, the department is not sweeping it away.
The Cedartown Police Chief launched an investigation and put the officer who fired on administrative leave. GOOD.
And the Sheriff's Office, which wasn't even involved, took the time to send condolences to the family.
HeeHaw wasn't a threat. He was a pet. And he trusted people right up until the end.
Rest easy, HeeHaw. 💔
HeeHaw Lawsuit Update: A federal lawsuit just laid out, paragraph by paragraph, exactly what the officer who shot HeeHaw is accused of doing.
Rockmart, Georgia. Hannah Israel filed suit September 11 against Officer Trenton Ryan Garner and the Cedartown Police Department. The complaint says Garner entered her enclosed pastureland after 10:30pm searching for a missing person who was never found there, with no warrant, no consent, and no exigent circumstance. He encountered HeeHaw, described in the filing as young, small, and tranquil, posing no threat to him, any officer, or the K9 on scene. He shot and killed the donkey anyway.
The complaint says officers left HeeHaw's body on the property without telling Israel where to find it. She was only told over the phone that a donkey had been "dispatched." She and a minor child searched the dark pastureland for hours before finding the body themselves.
She's suing under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments for unlawful entry, unreasonable destruction of property, and deprivation of due process, plus punitive damages.
A donkey that never threatened anyone is dead, and a child had to help search for the body in the dark because nobody bothered to say where it was.
H/t Federal complaint https://t.co/03T4VknySw