Posted on 05/08/2018 8:31:38 AM PDT by Simon Green
A police officer was seen shooting a groundhog in the middle of Liberty Road in Carroll County, upsetting some onlookers.
A video posted by one woman shows the officer killing the groundhog after it charges at him.
"This just happened. And I’m soooo distraught," wrote Justyna Olkowska on Facebook.
She said she was disturbed to see "Sykesville police shooting [groundhogs] in [the] head in broad daylight."
"Like I cannot believe I just witnessed this. If you’re not an animal lover, you won’t understand my pain," she wrote. "I may be wrong and he might have been doing his job but all I kept thinking was what if my little niece and nephew were in the car with me seeing this."
The groundhog was shot by a Carroll County Sheriff's Office, confirmed the department, not the separate Sykesville Police Department.
The incident happened at about 4 p.m. Sunday, when a deputy was travelling on Liberty Road/Route 26 in the area of White Rock Road in Eldersburg, said the Sheriff's Office in a statement.
"He found that the groundhog in question was walking into the roadway, causing vehicles to stop and creating a hazard," said the Sheriff's Office. "He got out of his vehicle to assess, and as he tried to direct the groundhog off of the roadway, he realized that it was not responding as expected for an animal that was not being cornered or trapped. Believing the groundhog to be either sick or injured, the deputy then put the animal down for the public's safety."
Tough. The groundhog wasn’t black.
I looked up “precious snowflake” in the dictionary and, sure enough, it was a picture of Justyna Olkowska .
groundhogs are extremely skittish creatures. They will flee quickly when approached by humans, dogs or any larger creature.
The fact this one didn’t indicates it was rabid or sick.
As she heads Mickey D’s to eat the cows she paid somebody to kill and butcher for her.
The groundhog obviously deserved it for not following the officer’s reasonable instructions of:
“SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!!! GET ON THE GROUND!!! STAND UP!! DO THE HOKEY-POKEY!!!”
And of course the groundhog LUNGED at the officer making the officer FEAR FOR HIS LIFE.
Well, Justyna, you will see a lot worse if the Deep State finds it necessary to move against the populace.
Who names their kid “Justyna” anyway? That is more cruel than shooting a stupid ground hog in the head. If that bothers you, you need to stay inside your house and never, ever come out again . . . sheesh!!!!
The groundhogs in my yard run when they see me. Something was definitely wrong with it.
“There is no way this winter is ever going to end, as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don’t see any other way out. He’s got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.”
"...groundhog behaving oddly as if sick and/or rabid..."
They're Polish! Justyna is a very common Polish first name.
“This just happened. And I’m soooo distraught,”
Wait till you find one of the creatures tearing up your garden or digging under your house foundation. There is a reason they are called varmints. My dogs kill them every chance they get. In some areas they can be shot when causing damage, on private property, w/o a license.
Snowflakes. Sheesh.
Don’t care about the groundhog, but discharged a firearm for that kind of problem is reckless.
Should have just beaten it to death with his baton.
In my neck of the woods, it’s usually rabies.
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