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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Video: Police Officer Tortures Baby Squirrel In
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Fri Apr 8 17:51:06 2011
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:41:38 -0700
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Video: Police Officer Tortures Baby Squirrel In Front of School Children
http://j.mp/dKSVzf (YouTube)
We all know that various police agencies are trying to prevent the
videotaping of encounters between their officers and citizens.
Here's a case where a Mesquite, Texas cop who is clearly a serious
jerk -- sorry, I don't have a more polite term available in
this case -- was videotaped torturing a baby squirrel with pepper
spray in front of screaming middle school children and teachers.
Outside of what he did to a harmless squirrel (from which he kept
backing up as if in fear), he apparently exposed everyone present to
pepper spray fumes (hear the teachers warn the children not to breathe
them).
If this guy would treat a baby squirrel this way, imagine how he might
treat people. Studies show over and over again that animal
mistreatment is one of the key predictors of human mistreatment.
Let's see if the police agency in this case tries to suppress *this*
video. Oops. Too late.
--Lauren--
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