A state animal cruelty investigation has resulted in the arrest of a now-former McNairy County Sheriff’s deputy, who is accused of shooting multiple dogs to death while tasked with ensuring the animals were okay.
Summary
Former McNairy County Sheriff’s deputy Connor Brackin, 24, has been fired and charged with seven counts of aggravated animal cruelty and eight counts of reckless endangerment after allegedly shooting seven dogs during an animal welfare check in Bethel Springs, Tennessee.
Brackin, who had been on the job for less than a month, reportedly released one dog to the welfare caller before killing the others for unknown reasons.
Following a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe, Brackin turned himself in and was released on bond.
Fascist saw an opportunity to harm animals and got carried away. Couldn't help himself. How many other sick individuals stalk our streets with a gun and a badge?
Cops kill thousands of dogs a year in the U.S. and almost no one outside those of us who have issues with cops in general already seems to give a shit.
I give a shit and I believe a lot of others do as well but what practical difference are you expecting that to make? There's not exactly a feelings poll taken before a cop shoots a person, much less a dog.
But I'm guessing you give a shit about other police violence issues too. My point is that we aren't seeing any major pushback from things like animal welfare and rescue groups on it, groups that normally wouldn't even wade into the police violence arena.
They don't need to take an anti-police stance to push back on it either. They could even do things like try and push for some sort of education for cops on the subject. I doubt that would work, but the fact that they aren't even doing that is what is so depressing to me.
In fact, they don't even need to go that far, they can just let people know that cops kill thousands of dogs every year for no reason and let them connect the dots for themselves, but they don't even do that.
I wonder what else he did to end up charged with crimes instead of just fired? One of those bullets must have gone through a kids bedroom or something, or the call was to a close friend of an official.