09/16/2026
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absolute slaughter of a one-year-old miniature donkey. I attended a protest. When I say I
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attended, I went simply to observe Friday morning. And when I got back to my office that afternoon,
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I filed the lawsuit. Um, and when I say it was a protest, it wasn't a big turnout,
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but I was shocked to see the amount of police presence when I got there. And so, Cedartown,
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Georgia is a small town in northwest Georgia. Uh, it's it's about an hour just about an hour and a
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half northwest of Atlanta. It's about two hours from where I'm from. When I when I got out there,
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there was police surrounding the front of the courthouse. There were two officers on top of the
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roof. I'm assuming at least one was a sniper of sorts. I believe they had an ambulance. They were
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they were ready for I guess like a 1960s civil rights sort of uh I guess violent protest. And
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so what we had was about I would say anywhere between 10 and 15 very polite, very energetic,
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so to speak protesters who were not being violent, were not yelling out slurs or baiting any [ __ ]
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response. They had just handmade signs asking for justice and transparency. And then literally
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across the street in a parking lot, uh there was a I would I would have countered about 10 or 15
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I don't want to say anti-protesters because I I certainly didn't speak with any of them, but it was clear that they were all huddled around the family members of Trenton Garner, who was
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the officer who slaughtered this one-year-old miniature docel donkey. I didn't see Trenton
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there, but I I certainly saw uh Trenton's father who was ultimately arrested. Because first of all,
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you look like a dick. Okay. Uhuh. Chad. Chad. I'm telling you, you messed up some [ __ ] word.
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It was not an aggressive approach. He was simply trying to get a comment. and the father of Trent Garner slapped the microphone out of the reporter's hand. Uh I want to say he slapped
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it. I think he like grabbed it and he threw it back at the reporter and then again I don't I
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don't have all the details but apparently there was another piece of equipment like a camera of sorts that was broken too. But in my view, being a criminal defense attorney, that was there was
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three criminal acts committed there. Uh battery, assault, and criminal trespass to property, which could have been a felony depending on how much the value of the equipment was.
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Stop.
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You come over here provoking [ __ ] [ __ ] You better go somewhere else. This This isn't peaceful. This is not peaceful. And this is what you wanted. So walk over there. You
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getting exactly what you wanted. We're just local news. Local news. [ __ ] you. Local news had your
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address on the damn thing. Walk over there. This is peaceful. Walk. We ain't bothering y'all. Y'all
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take your ass back over you under. This isn't cute. This isn't funny. Just walk over there.
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We're not trying to be. I'm a North Georgia local. [ __ ] Who you are? Don't Why are you upset with me? Because you come over here when we're starting you come over here provoking somebody and that's
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the only [ __ ] reason you come over here and you know it. And why would you destroy my camera? This
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gentleman just hit me, assaulted me and destroyed my camera gear right here. I want to press
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charges. I was on the sidewalk. My gear's right there. I was assaulted. Okay, do me a favor. Let's
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separate for now. Kind of calm this down. Look, my gear's broken. My microphone's in the street.
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I was assaulted. I want to press charges. But instead of charging that individual, again, again,
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I'm speculating here because this is just what I'm what I've heard. Uh the PK County Sheriff's Office
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and and again, PK County Sheriff was not involved in the donkey shooting. It was PK County Police
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Department, which were separate entities, but my understanding it was the it was the PK County Sheriff's Office who who arrested a significant time later. It wasn't like and their officers
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there observing all this. They didn't immediately arrest this man. They waited until I I guess the
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reporter just insisted on that there be an arrest and they arrested him. My understanding he was charged with disorderly conduct which is one of the lowest level offenses in the state of Georgia.
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Not battery, not assault, not criminal trespass, driven down to the sheriff's office, given a
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$500 bond and posted immediately. And so, uh, what I what I did yesterday, I sent a notice to
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preserve evidence foliation demand via certified mail to the PK County Sheriff's Office. And I'm
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happy to share that with you. They literally went in the mail yesterday afternoon, so they won't even be getting it until probably later this week. Uh to both the PK County Sheriff's Office and the
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Pulk County Police Department demanding that they preserve all of their body cams of every single
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officer that was present at that protest, all of their internal communications, all their text,
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etc. because I want to see why, and I think it entirely relates specifically if if we're
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going to move forward with a claim against a municipality, why this culture thinks it's it's
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appropriate to react to improper, I guess, acts in their county in the manner that they do. So,
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so again, yeah, I didn't see it, but maybe they just felt sorry for this guy because they're like,
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"Hey, his son is is being with all this backlash. They're going to try to give him a pass." But,
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you know, to to me that that's just just reeks of I don't want to say corruption,
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just in maybe incompetency or uh bias. It just reeks of bias and in my view incompetency. And so,
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uh, they're not going to produce any of those to me at this point. They may not have a choice once we send out discovery in the the federal lawsuit. And particularly if if we add
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the municipalities to this. Is there is there body cam footage from the the shooting? Well,
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so again, I'm simply reading from the police report. According to the police report, only
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officer Gardner had his body cam on and apparently there was a drone flying over from the Rockmarked
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fire department. But they have not. I I've sent I've sent open records requests and demands for preservation of evidence to every entity under the sun in Pulk County to the fire department,
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the sheriff's office, to the Department of Agriculture. Nobody's producing it. They're all saying it's an active investigation. Have they shared any of that footage with your client? No.
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That kind of tells us what we need to know, right? Generally speaking, if this the officer in in
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question here claims that this one-year-old little puppy of a donkey was charging at him such that he
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was scared for his safety and had no choice but to but to use deadly force. If the video actually
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showed that, I have a strong suspicion that by now we would have already seen it. Generally speaking,
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and again, this is just based on my experience. When the body camera exonerates the police, they blast it all over the place. Everybody gets to see it. It's on their page
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and their ex account and their Instagram and whatever other social media they have. They're putting it out there, uh, calling press conferences, letting everybody know,
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"Watch this video. Look at this video. It exonerates our cops." And by the way, I like when they do that. I do. I really do because then it eliminates the question of whether
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the police acted incorrectly in that given case that we're talking about hypothetically. However,
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in a case like this where there's an uproar with pitchforks and torches and people all over the
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country want to know what in the world happened. How did this sweet little donkey end up getting
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killed in its own pasture when it was most likely doing nothing wrong? And why would this
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police officer be so scared of his own shadow that he felt the need to execute this donkey, which is what it sounds like happened here? And again, until we see the footage,
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we have no way of knowing. We know from the owner, we know from Miss Israel that this was the
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sweetest little animal that ever lived. There's no way that it would attack anybody. Just no way.
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Hey y'all.
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Hi Heiho. How are you? Good morning. Good morning. Heho. Good morning, baby. Hello. Yes. How are you?
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And then another issue that I see in a case like this is another big question that's going to
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be how many other police officers were there at the time when this shooting took place. Not only
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because, you know, for purposes of safety, but more importantly, did they draw their weapons?
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When somebody comes at at the cops with a gun, they all draw their weapons and very often many
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of them fire. I've seen lots of footage. I'm sure both of you have as well where somebody does something wrong, somebody's charging at the police, whether it's with a weapon
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or or otherwise, and gets shot by multiple police officers because they all draw their weapons, they all fire at the same time. That's what happens when there's a real threat. A case like this,
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the first thing I would I would want to know is what did all the other officers do? And then one last point I just want to make sure I don't know if I don't know how how well known this is.
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Police in the United States kill about 10,000 dogs per year. I've litigated a bunch of these cases
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where cops are either executing a search warrant or walking up to somebody's home and Fluffy walks
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over to them and they're so scared that they have no choice but to take out their fi****ms and kill
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that dog. And it happens all the time. It happens every single day, dozens of times every single
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day all across the country. And the qualified immunity, frankly, in this case is pretty strong
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or generally with with dog shooting cases because very often it's not captured on body cam. Now, thankfully it is, but a lot of the existing case law is before body cameras were as common
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as they are now. But that's that's um that's one of the one of the most important things
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which is always alleged is that the officers were infair for their lives or fear for their safety, so they had to shoot the dog. a case like this, it's on body camera and it's either going to
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show a playful little donkey walking up and being sweet or it's going to show an aggressive, scary,
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terrified looking donkey trying to attack. And I think that the fact that we have not yet seen
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the footage tells us all we need to know. Explain what were they doing on your client's property in
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the first place. So, the story, the explanation we have, and we have no reason to believe it's
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it's not accurate, is that there was a a report of a missing 12-year-old in the area. And so,
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they had contacted when I say they, the I guess the agency who got contacted first was Cedartown
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Police Department um based on the jurisdiction of it. And that's who Trent Garner worked for. and
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he he either he or that department requested the assistant of a neighboring county called Harelson
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County who had a a K-9 andor a blood hound unit. And so that officer or the additional officer came
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and met at some point. I we don't know where. I don't think I don't think that they met up on my client's property. I think is a situation where they met up somewhere in the area and the blood
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hound got a scent so to speak and tracked the scent through the woods because it's it's a it's
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a farm it's farm pasture but then there's woods around it around it and it's a fence pasture too by the way they they would have had to literally open I don't think there's any evidence they broke
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a lock so to speak but they they would have just had to open open a a gate to the pasture
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based on the scent of whatever the dog or the blood hound was was uh noticing. Um but here's
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the distinction. They didn't find the girl on the property. Uh they're claiming they saw footprints, but there's no there's no evidence, as I understand it, that the footprints matched this
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this missing child who they did find sometimes later. I think there's a lot of misinformation on the internet that she was found before. I think it's been confirmed that she was found sometime
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later somewhere close to the property, but there's no indication that it was ever the child was ever
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on the property. And the distinction here is which I think is important is that my client operates
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her farm not for, you know, growing crops, so to speak, but she boards horses. She treats it as
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like a petting zoo. Uh there's multiple donkeys on the property. There's multiple, you know, horses on the property. And so, and there and there's there's people there all the time. From
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my understanding, she she was operating business on the property until around 9:30 that night. So,
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I'm not surprised that, you know, dog would have picked up scent of of something just because there was a lot of people there, including children. I don't think dogs can, again, I'm not a dog expert,
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tracking expert. I don't think they can pick up the difference between a child and an adult. Maybe they can, but they were on my client's property. They're going to claim an exigent circumstance
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missing for a for a child. Um, but this is a big question for me that I think needs to be
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answered. Why didn't they call my client before or while they were on the property? Because they had
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her number. They called her afterwards to let her know. And they they also had her number because it
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it's pretty common. I grew up you guys can see my cowboy hat and bolo, etc. I'm from just outside of
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Nashville, Tennessee. That's where I was born and raised. All my family lives there. I simply came to Georgia for college and just stuck around, so to speak. So, you know, I grew up on on farm land.
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My grandfather still runs cattle to this day. It's pretty common for animals to get out of enclosed
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fences and pastures and and so it's pretty common for local law enforcement to have property owners
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numbers call them up saying, for example, hey, you got a cow in the middle of the road. Something there's no cows on my client's property, but you you get the point. She's had animals get
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out. Not because she's negligent in any sense of the word. It just happens when you have animals. They had her number. They did not call her before they went on the property. They didn't call her
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while they were on the property. You Why wouldn't they have called her, for example, and ask, "Hey, we're out here looking for a minor child. Have you seen a minor child?" They all clearly know
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that she operates a petting zoo. That maybe that was an attractive nuisance to a child, right? You would like she had a swimming pool. You would think they would call the property
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owner while they were looking for a missing child. Maybe in another context that the child wander on the property and go, you know, attract her to a swimming pool and go swimming, that sort of thing.
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No, they didn't call her at all to say, "Hey, we know you operate a petting zoo. You got children there all the time. Have you seen this little girl wandering around?" No, nothing. They just
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went into your property in the middle of the night without any notice whatsoever. And you
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know this little donkey, he he's he's probably wondering why in the world are there people on my property in the middle of this field at one 12 one o'clock in the morning. So he was just a
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curious little donkey who's used to people coming up to him. He was used to going up to people. So
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you know I would be shocked to see in that video if they ever release it this donkey just running
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at him like a a rabiesinfested donkey of some sort, so to speak, for lack of better words.
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I think there's a difference between police like chasing somebody across property or it's something
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that's timesensitive. You know, somebody's kidnapped and and and they're on the trail
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and a situation where you can communicate ahead of time with the landowner and be like, "Hey, is it
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cool if we cross your property um so that they can do whatever they need to do with their livestock?"
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Um, do you are you aware of any reason here that this was so time-sensitive that they couldn't
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reach out and contact your client before entering on the property? Do not know. No, I have not heard
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any details other than a missing child. It is my understanding. There's no accusation. I could be wrong, but they're being tight lipped on it that the child was abducted. I don't think there's any
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evidence the child was abducted. Uh, I don't think there's any evidence that the child was like going
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out into the field to like harm herself. I mean, I could be wrong, but the only details that we have, and it's from a very vague police report, is in and this police chief's statement is that there
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was a missing child. No other details. And this is this is something which which really bothers
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me a lot. I think there's a good chance we're going to lose this case. And that's it's not
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something I say lightly. Knowing how the 11th Circuit loves to expand qualified immunity and
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loves to expand Clearly Established, I could see a court saying, "Well, hey, there's no case law
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that that discusses donkeys. There's only case law that discusses other pets or dogs. So therefore,
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it's not clearly established." I can also see the court saying that under the any reasonable officer
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standard that it's possible that a donkey walking up to an officer even even in a non-aggressive way
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at night when you don't know what's going through the donkey's head and you don't know if the donkey's going to bite you any reasonable officer could perceive that as a threat potentially the
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only the most onpoint case I was able to find that would be binding in the 11th circuit is plowight
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versus Miami Dade county, which is where there was a dog that was incapacitated and for some
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reason the cop felt the need to execute it. So, a situation like that where it's incapacitated, certainly that's clearly established and you can sue for that. But in a case like this, I have very
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serious concerns about whether the 11th Circuit is going to allow us to proceed because the 11th
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Circuit will likely find exigent circumstances existed because there was a missing child and
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possibly that qualified immunity exists because any reasonable officer might perceive a miniature
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donkey walking up to you as a threat. And again, this is just based on the circuit that we're in
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and how terrible qualified immunity case law has been out of the 11th Circuit. This is one of those
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cases where if you make it to a jury, you're going to win. Oh, yeah. But you got to make it past the
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judge. And I agree that it's going to be difficult here for the reasons that you stated. it would be
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much easier to establish criminal liability on this officer. So, I mean, we don't know what the
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body cam shows. So, if the body cam shows what we think it does, that it was not reasonable there.
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There was no, you know, serious immediate threat to uh to this officer. He was just a coward. Um
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he was being unreasonable. If the body cam shows that, then it would be it would be much easier
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to establish that he committed some crime when he shot and killed Heihaw because qualified immunity
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is not a defense to a crime. They need to be expos if if they're going to defend this, then they need
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to be exposed to the public for what happened and for their defense of what happened. Well, John,
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sunshine is the best disinfectant, and there's no question that your YouTube channel provides
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a tremendous amount of sunshine. When When was the first time that your client found out what
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had happened? Sometime around or after 1:00 in the morning. So, there's been some reports there was a
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20 minutes after the shooting. We don't we're not 100% sure when the shooting occurred and how long it took. a supervisor, not the officer. None of the officers called my client. It was a
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supervisor who called my client who answered the phone. It's not like a situation where she was sleeping and her phone was on silent. The phone was not on silent. Phone rang, she answered it and
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it was a supervisor. According to the report, it's a supervisor by the name of Yarborough
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um who was very short. He wasn't rude to her. My client's description of he wasn't consolatory. He
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simply used the same word um that's pretty common in this industry of police shootings. They had
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to dispatch the animal. That was uh I guess the description not not we had to unfortunately shoot
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your donkey. It was dis we had to dispatch the animal. So u and of course my client had questions
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while being woken in the middle of the night. What do you mean? you know, dispatch my animal. So,
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and so here's here's the other here's the other kicker in this case. In my view, it makes it such
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heartstring strong case. My client h has a little girl who stays on the property with her. She's 15
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years old. um who and I certainly don't want to go into that child's background, but for long
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story short, my understanding is that child used saw this donkey as sort of a an animal that she
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used to address her own trauma uh to it's common at petting zoos that you know children they they
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bond with certain animals and you know they see them as sort of like their best friend. They were
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going out. When I say they, my client, Miss Israel and this this minor child who's 15 years old were
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trying to find the body of the donkey. And when they found it, obviously the 15-year-old was
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present. That that's who you see in the pictures that's circulating over the over the internet,
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punched over with a hand up, looking emotional. That's the 15-year-old. That's not Miss Israel.
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Um, but obviously there's an emotional element that goes along with that 15-year-old as well.
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And and to be clear, I mean, my client, she she didn't have complete information. She didn't really she she was hopeful that maybe the donkey was still alive. Uh, you know,
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that maybe they could render some type of care to the animal. So, you know, how much time had
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it elapsed between when they shot the donkey and they notified the owner? It's not clear. I mean,
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maybe the donkey could have received some sort of medical aid and survived. We don't know. Well, if you when you if you read the reports closely, it says the animal after it was shot turned and
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walked away. So, it wasn't a situation where it was a shot to the heart or shot to the brain. Now, they're doing a I don't I can't remember how to exactly pronounce the word. An animal autopsy
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on the donkey. It should have been done at this point. It's I was on the property on the Monday following the Sunday shooting. I was there when the carcass of the donkey was
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still there. I was there when a detective or an officer with Department of Agriculture showed up. He interviewed my client with me present. I asked for to be recorded. There is a recording of
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that interview. That officer was very polite. He simply just listened. He just asked basic
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generic questions. That officer was met about an hour later after he did the interview by someone
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associated with the Department of Agriculture who who told us they were going to take they assured us they were taking the body to do it part of the investigation. That's why we were so cooperative
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that they were going to take the body. They wanted to get it before there was too much decay to be able to to do an part of their investigation. take it to the University of Georgia where they
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they're known for a very very big vet veterinarian clinic so to speak, do the actual forensics on the
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donkey, whatever they're going to do to whatever part of their investigation that they were going to put the donkey's carcass in a freezer so they could do that part of the investigation. Um, and
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so I know I kind of went off on a tangent there, but I mean we we have no reason to believe the
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Department of Agriculture is not doing the right thing. I did do an open records request about about a week ago and the response that I received back was they're denying it because they're still
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doing investigation. They expect three weeks for the remaining of the investigation. That was the
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email I got last week. Um so yeah, we're still waiting. You filed the civil lawsuit already. Is
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that right? It's filed Friday. And Solomon, you're going to be prohawking into the case hopefully.
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I am. Yes. I had to compile the list, an up-to-date list of all the courts I've ever been in, and that took uh that took a lot longer than I thought it would. What's the legal basis
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for the claim? Because it's not like where a human is shot, and um it's very similar to a dog being
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shot. What is the what is the constitutional claim? Is it a is it an excessive force claim or is it an unreasonable search and seizure claim? So, it's actually interesting. There's
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there's a fourth amendment uh allegation here of unreasonable seizure because they they obviously
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they took it without um you know they seized the property. There's also an unlawful entry claim just because at this point in time based on the limited information that we have we're not sure if
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uh they actually had a basis to be on the property or not. And then there's also a constitutional claim for deprivation of property. And um and those are the three claims that are there right
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now. I think the strongest claim and the claim that's most likely to survive is the fourth amendment seizure claim based on unreasonleness of destroying an animal or killing an animal
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depending on which verbiage you prefer. Has there been any response as of yet from the city to the
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filing of the lawsuit? Well, I haven't served the city with the the lawsuit. I did send this the
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city a Nancy Lidum notice last week, essentially the same day I filed the lawsuit, just to preserve any potential state claims. We asked for a million dollars. I know a lot of people are wondering
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how I came with that figure. We certainly don't expect the payment. Maybe we'll be surprised. Um,
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but I but to answer your question, I I've had no contact from uh any of the departments other
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than responding to my open records request saying it's being denied currently because
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of a pending investigation. Well, I appreciate you sharing it with me. Um, I'd love to know
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what you guys find out when you finally get to see the body cam and this alleged drone footage.
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For sure. You'll be the first to know, John. So, there you have it. This is the most up-to-date
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coverage on this issue. I literally just talked to those guys a couple of hours ago.
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I will include in the description all of the links from the GoFundMe to the full lawsuit
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that was filed. Obviously, we have not yet seen the alleged body cam footage that exists showing
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what happened. I agree with Solomon that we would have probably seen that already had it been favorable to the shooter, but we'll just have to wait and see. So,
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I'll continue to follow this one and I look forward to an update from Solomon and Chris.
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And here's another interesting thing. These are the same two lawyers who are representing a client
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that is portrayed in another YouTube video that I did out of Georgia. One that's very popular,
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got over 4 million views, and one that I get asked by you all the time for the update. You're going to have to get a warrant if you want anything else, and I'm going to have to
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ask you to leave. And he that's when he got mad. Everyone's the same. Do you have a warrant? Do
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you have a warrant? This is being videotaped. I hope you know that everyone's outside now.
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I didn't think he was going to walk straight by me and do what he wanted to do. Well, I also talked to them about that and that one is coming up soon. So,
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you can follow along by subscribing both here and at the blog at the civil rightsawyer.com. You can follow me on X and the other socials, JohnBryantesq. Remember,
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