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Two former Maine police officers were charged with animal cruelty last week, reportedly on allegations that, while on duty, they beat multiple porcupines to death with retractable batons.
The accusations against the Rockland police officers, who were fired in September, were detailed in a report filed by an investigator with the Maine Warden Service, the law enforcement arm of the state’s Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, according to the local Courier Gazette, which viewed the document.
The former officers, Addison Cox and Michael Rolerson, admitted to killing several porcupines when speaking to a Game Warden investigator, according to the Gazette, but expressed regret over it. Rolerson also admitted to sometimes pepper-spraying porcupines. Another officer allegedly posted video of one of the attacks to Snapchat.
Two Cops Fired After Allegedly Beating Multiple Porcupines to Death
I wonder if they would have only got time off if this had been a person they beat?