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    Shock as police ram escaped cow on the street, as officers say it 'was hurt while being moved to safety'
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    Shock as police ram escaped cow on the street, as officers say it ‘was hurt while being moved to safety’

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    2. Dissidant on

      Saw the clip. Its an unusual situation but that was completely inappropriate and nothing “safe” about hitting the animal at that speed

      Anyone else would get done

    3. shimmy_jimmy_yall on

      Surrey Police said: “Yesterday evening (14 June), at around 8:55pm, we received reports that a cow was running loose in Staines-upon-Thames. The cow ran onto a number of main roads and caused traffic disruption within the local area. Fortunately, the cow has not caused injuries to anyone.

      “Whilst attempting to move the cow to safety, it became increasingly distressed and was injured. The cow is now secure within a park in the local area, and officers are remaining with it while we await the arrival of a vet.”

      Chief Inspector Adam Tatton said: “We know that this has caused some distress within the local community this evening, and I would like to reassure you that we are doing all we can to identify the owners and ensure the cow is seen as quickly as possible by a vet.

      “Our priority when responding to any incident is first and foremost the safety of the public. I would like to thank the community for their understanding this evening, and ask that they stay away from the park while officers are on scene.”

      The force said the cow posed a threat to the public. The incident was referred to the police watchdog, who decided that the officers had no charges to face.

      Bastards.

      https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/police-ram-cow/

    4. Hurri-Kane93 on

      That was absolutely horrendous, it’s not an easy thing to watch.

      The officers involved should face some sort of repercussions, completely unnecessary use of force to ram a calf at such speed then pin it down by its head under the vehicle

    5. Potential-Secret-760 on

      “Police ram escaped cow”

      That is not a very nice to talk about your mum.

    6. NeverGonnaGiveMewUp on

      What the actual fuck? So many problems with this.

      1/ Why? The cow didn’t need to be mowed down once, let alone twice!

      2/ Why? Are the police actually even responding to this? Genuine crime, “sorry we can’t look at that”, cow in the road, “let’s roll”

    7. Seraphyn22 on

      I lived in Wanstead, London as a child and cows wandering around was a common occurrence. Come out the front door and your front garden could be filled with cows. Not once did I ever see police do anything like this. They used to corral them and herd them back to the flats. But nothing this horrific.

      To make this even worse, that was a calf. I hope the driver is kicked off the force and prosecuted for cruelty.

    8. Durzo___Blint on

      I really wished I hadn’t watched this. Poor cow. I hope the responsible officer catches some consequences!!!

    9. KrunchyFB on

      I saw the headline and thought “well it’s tough but god knows a full-grown cow can do a lot of damage to a person without any intent, might have not a had another realistic choice”.

      Then I saw the size of the animal, sure it ain’t small but that’s still firmly in “calf” territory. At that age they’re mostly just curious about people, and will follow along at whatever pace you’re moving. Might get spooked if, for example, there’s a bunch of hopped-up coppers running about shouting, using sirens and driving their vehicles erratically. But then there’s an easy answer right there, behave like a calm rational adult around the animal and it won’t panic.

      Getting the pickup to run it down seems like the “we always wanted to do this and now we have an excuse” answer

    10. bannanawaffle13 on

      What’s worse is that I think this the the rural crime police that ran in it over so not just some inner city police, these are supposed to know about rural issues like I don’t know loose animals. The person driving needs to be sacked and like firefighters near me the rest need to have proper training on handling animals, cows can be dangerous but with proper training and experience can be controlled, this however is never the right choice. You can also put a cow down with a rifle or shotgun humanly in a severe last resort(i.e not this situation) but hitting it with a car will just cause more suffering for the poor creature.

    12. pullmaplunger on

      I let the cows out of a field when I was 7 and was able to guide them all on foot, this is a fucking baby, get that dickhead coppers badge number, a life is a life and this is attempted murder.

    13. Radiant_Pudding5133 on

      Is there any other job that attracts as many incompetent morons (at best) or sociopaths (at worst) as the police?