Posted April 13, 2011 by Ray Harkins
As a group of students screamed in horror and begged him to stop, a police officer in Mesquite, Texas, pepper-sprayed a tiny baby squirrel outside Kimbrough Middle School. The officer claimed to be worried that the squirrel had rabies, but animal control officers who cleaned up the squirrel before her releasing her said it was unlikely she had the disease.
The Mesquite Police Department says it is looking into the incident. Please take a moment to e-mail Derek Rohde, Chief of Police, and ask him to take disciplinary action against the officer whose cruel actions traumatized and set a horrible example for the students.
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697 days ago
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I thought police officers were supposed to be the good guys/gals!
697 days ago
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OMG…what a mean person!
709 days ago
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this is just plain sad.
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771 days ago
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:0 I meant 250 pound man. My bad.
771 days ago
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It’s just a f’ing squirrel. Why would you have to spray it? It was porbably just hungry. They can’t do much damage to a 250 supposibly grown man. How stupid can this guy be? That’s cruel.
772 days ago
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This is horrible! I happen to LOVE baby squirrels! Bad Karma dude…
772 days ago
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What an idiot. Great to know these guys are protecting us -__-
772 days ago
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This man????? obviously cannot be trusted to hold such an important position in society. What would he do if he thought a human baby had AIDS? I shudder to think. Police should have a higher IQ than 5.
772 days ago
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That’s disgusting.
It sucks that he’s a cop… cops are oh-so-special so you aren’t allowed to do something against it. But no one ever said you can’t stand in the line of fire. That would never fly at my school. We have TOO many animal rights activists here and that cop would be screwed. D<
This pisses me off. That officer should have known better than to spray an innocent animal. If you THINK it has ANY signs of rabies, put something over it and call Animal Care Services. THEY'LL tell you properly. Just keep everyone inside. Jeez… what has become of this world..?
772 days ago
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I HATE THAT GUY!!!! If I was a student there, I would have grabbed the pepper spray out of his hands and either run away or spray it at him. I wouldn’t care how much trouble I was in.
773 days ago
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I hope he gets fired!
773 days ago
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this is sooo sad why?!!!? would you pepper spray a baby squirrel!! >=[
773 days ago
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this is police brutality in its purest form. wth did that squirrelly baby do wrong!!!!?????
773 days ago
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This is unbelievable, this police officer is a dumb-FKN-ass