Oakland police chase and gun down 'Bambi'

[Liberal_in_LA]

Oakland police chase and gun down 'Bambi'

Residents of an East Oakland neighborhood are upset after Oakland police killed a wayward deer over the weekend.

On Saturday morning, an officer spotted the young deer that had wandered into the area and chased it in his patrol car. The deer jumped over a fence and into the backyard of Kim McLemore' house on 90th avenue.

Police evacuated the area and, under orders to "dispatch the deer," shot it seven times before it died. Animal control officers were also on the scene.

Officials said the deer was gunned down because "it was acting disoriented in an urban environment." Holly Joshie from the Oakland Police Department also said, "There were many children and area residents and the officers did make a decision that the deer was a public safety issue."

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Weems and other residents believed the killing was unnecessary. "They didn't have to do that," said McLemore. "They could have figured something else out, right?"

According to Susan Heckly of the Lindsay Wildlife Center, they could have tranquilized the deer or set it free.

But officers from OPD and animal control are not trained to use tranquilizers on animals, reports KTVU.

"We are going to review this procedure and in the future we really are going to come up with something else. There has to be a better way to handle this situation," said Joshie.



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[joeybee12]

1. Seven shots, huh, doubtless the deer was killed right away...a lot of needless

suffering because these cops are assholes.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. I saw this on the local news --

and it made me sick to my stomach. :cry: Talk sbout a totally uneccessary solution to the problem. That poor animal -- just another victim of stupid humans.

[noiretextatique]

5. the fearless OPD

gunning down a defenseless animal. our tax dollars at work :sarcasm:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. Yup --

Ain't it the truth! :hi: I mean just how damned dumb/disconected do you have to be to think that shooting a cowerng animal is the only answer to that problem?? We had Fish and Game shoot and kill a coyote here in Golden Gate Park a while back -- folks were outraged that that was resorted to to remove the animal and not other, non-lethal means.

Everybody's gotta be Rambo these days, going in guns a blazin' and not using their heads to find a creative solution.

[Morning Dew]

3. Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, they just tackle the dang deer and haul it away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_rytvwSjjo&feature=related

this just happened Sunday ( I think) in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

[barbtries]

14. that was fun

there are several different videos up - i watched 3 of them.

here in NC deer are all over the place. if people shot every deer that got in their lawn the population would be decimated. this was horrible and unnecessary imo.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. yeah, cool video. Funny how 20 people follow the deer handlers outside

[barbtries]

16. you may not have seen the part of how the deer got in

shattering the front glass door.

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. did you see how the person puts down 2 chairs to keep deer coralled?

lol, 2 chairs aren't going to stop a deer

[Morning Dew]

17. On the video on the local newscast

it looked like people held the front door open and the deer just walked in the restaurant - not sure what they crashed through, maybe an inner door?

On edit, it was the inner entryway that the deer just ran through - they crashed through the front door.

[barbtries]

22. yeah

in the video i saw the door was creamed.

[KamaAina]

4. They thought they were reaching for their Tasers

:sarcasm:

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. The deer was reaching for her waistband

[MadHound]

6. Acting disoriented in an urban environment, well d'uh!

Of course it was disoriented, it comes from the woods. What, you expect it to hop on board a bus and head for Northern California?

If it was in a fenced backyard, it would have been easy to net it or tranq it. The fact that they didn't call in Animal Control, you know, the experts, just goes to show that the only thing they had on their mind was killing this poor animal.

Fucking idiots couldn't even do a clean kill:grr:

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

7. I'll bet they really enjoyed themselves

Seven shots? Keerist.

[Brickbat]

9. "Why did they shoot Bambi?"

Does anybody watch Bambi anymore? Seriously? I'm sorry, that phrase kind of made me go "snerk."

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Movie has a new audience every 7 years or so

[Lochloosa]

20. I have it on DVD. And I'm 52

[underseasurveyor]

10. And today here in So. Cal. (Oxnard)

They tranquillized a California Black Bear and removed it safely and gently from a tree.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/04/tranqualized-bear-removed_n_562926.html

"Fire crews on Tuesday morning were working to rescue a bear that ran around a Ventura County neighborhood for hours before climbing a tree at a cemetery and taking a long nap.

The 200-pound bear was partially tranquilized and had at least three darts stuck in its side when it fell asleep about 25-feet up in the tree, wedged in branches."

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. They didn't take the easy route of filling the bear full of bullets

[underseasurveyor]

19. Yea surprising to me too

Since bears are the number one threat to America.

"I believe all God's creatures have a soul — except bears, Bears are actually Satan's children."
—Stephen Colbert, on his show, The Colbert Report

[greencharlie]

13. I couldn't be MORE disgusted. nt

[Rex]

21. 'it was acting disoriented in an urban environment'

no shit!? So the deer got gunned down for acting natural in an unnatural setting? That is about as stupid an answers as the shit I read from Tea-baggers.


I think they just wanted to kill something and bambi looked like easy prey.

[TexasObserver]

24. They claim he was flashing gang signs and looked like he had a gun.

[LeftyMom]

25. "animal control are not trained to use tranquilizers on animals"

Why the fuck not?

[joeybee12]

27. Exactly...then what the phuck are they trained to do? n/t

[Iggo]

28. Wow.

It's right there in the name, you fucks. "Animal Control."

"Sorry folks, but we're just not trained to control animals."

AAAAGGHH!!!

[RamboLiberal]

31. Actually deer don't do very good tranquilized

Saw that on one of the Animal Cops shows on Animal Planet a couple of years back. They stated when they had a tranquilize a deer that many die and the one they tranquilized in fact didn't survive.

Still I think it would've been better in this instance to try instead of the cops shooting it.

BTW, 7 shots - wonder about their marksmanship.

[madinmaryland]

26. Why not just taser it? nt

[xchrom]

29. Recommend

[Flaneur]

30. Did they charge it with resisting arrest?

[Tesha]

32. It's America -- Guns are *ALWAYS* the answer, no matter what the question. (NT)

[Matariki]

33. Oh man, they're flying the same defense they use when they taser people

"it was acting disoriented in an urban environment."

That's a *great* reason :eyes:

[LeftyMom]

34. He had a pinecone that was mistaken for a gun in low light.

It's all the deer's fault. He could have followed the officers' orders instead of being all panicked and jumpy.