Posted on 07/20/2025 8:09:39 AM PDT by thegagline
A fiendish New Mexico sheriff’s deputy has been placed on leave after video emerged of him fatally hurling an adorable baby bunny against the side of his car while smiling.
Grant County Sheriff’s Deputy Alejandro Gomez, 27 was seen in cell phone video recorded by other cops pleading with a fellow deputy to hand over the sweet baby rabbit the group had found in the dirt outside of Hachita, New Mexico last August, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
In the video, posted to Facebook Monday, a group of officers are pulled over to the side of a dusty road where they find a baby bunny about the size of a grapefruit.
“Promise you’re not going to kill it,” the deputy said, shielding the bunny in his hands, “Swear to God.”
“I swear to God,” the 27-year-old replied. “Give it to me right now.”
After resisting, the animal-loving deputy finally relented when Gomez threatened him with a stun gun.
Video showed the light of the gun, indicating a target, illuminating the side of the law enforcement officer.
Gomez then takes the rabbit in his right hand, looks directly at the camera, and hurls the helpless creature into the side of the car.
The videographer of the animal snuff film, an unidentified corporal in the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, laughed hysterically at the brutality.
The 27-year-old is charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon upon a peace officer and one count of extreme cruelty to animals, which is a fourth-degree felony, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
Both the sergeant and the corporal who witnessed the rabbit killing and Gomez threatening his fellow deputy are still employed, with neither being placed on leave despite their failure to intervene, the State Police said, according to the report.
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And this is my problem with today’s law enforcement. At least four cops there. One should be under the prison. But two others stood by and let it happen. They should be in prison. Only one of the four appears to have tried to do the right thing. And was threatened with being tasered.
It’s not just that there are bad cops. It’s that the supposedly good cops cover for and enable the bad cops.
It’s not a good look
It’s tuff enough for baby rabbits to even progress beyond the birth nest
And I’ve shot plenty cottontails
I don’t think the rabbit-killer understands the gravity of swearing to God.
That’s a huge mistake.
[[I work with and around cops a lot and the rule is they are compassionate and reasonable. The bad cops are the exception.]]
Exactly-
You got it backwards there. The so-called animal lover is the one that was threatened with a stun gun. The report says a sergeant and a corporal were there and did not stop it and have not been disciplined.
I judge the whole by the inaction of the rest.
There are many view points here:
1) why is this national news.
2) Not sure I would want to enter dangerous situations with a fellow officer who is so focused on a baby rabbit.
3) What is the agenda of this article? Did it work.
On our property, if rabbits were protected here, the hillside under our house would continue to slide away. They do a LOT of damage to a steep hillside. Eventually the process would take our house. There is no reasonable or effective way to trap and relocate them. They're part of the food chain. Our outdoor cat feasts on them along with ground squirrels that take out quail nests. As a result, the quail thrive here. Get a cat, get more quail? It's true, and it's really cruel to ground squirrels.
"The wild" is a cruel place.
It's quite possible this officer was raised in a rural family in a culture steeped in a cultural antipathy for wild rabbits, ground squirrels, etc. Hence, this wantonly cruel behavior, while problematic in a police officer, is at least understandable. So before you project your urban sensibilities and demand this person be deprived of his livelihood or even be injured in like manner as punishment, consider well how he might have arrived at such behavior. It may be more complicated than you realize.
He’s probably a “US Citizen” from Silver City...which btw was never a Mexican settlement, but rather a mining town built up by Americans. Silver City is now about 40% Mexican but has been a bit of hippie town since the ‘80s when the mines started having problems due to price of copper.
Wild rabbits are ubiquitous in New Mexico. I live in a part of Rio Rancho that has been developed for more than 60 years and we have at least five wild rabbits in my back yard as I type. It's not hard to catch them. I've dispatched a few babies whose momma rabbit never came home (we also have hawks, coyotes, roadrunners, and Great Horned Owls). Not fun but it was quick and humane.
People better pray this SOB never pulls them over. He’s dangerous. The libs need to Doxx and SWAT this maggot.
Not good judgment. You don't know why the others didn't act. They might have been intimidated by the bad cop's threats.
Again, I work with and around cops a lot and the rule is they are compassionate and reasonable. The bad cops are the exception.
“You don’t know why the others didn’t act. They might have been intimidated by the bad cop’s threats.”
The article claims the unnamed corporal was laughing. Do you think that does not deserve some sort of disciplinary action? And if they are intimidated by a rogue officer, why wouldn’t they be doing stuff outside of that scene to get rid of him?
Instead what we keep hearing is “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.”
I think the rabbit killing officer (1) should be kicked a few times in the nuts for being a lying low down piece of ___ and (2) fired, because he cannot be trusted.
Yes, I think that those that laughed and helped should be disciplined along with the perp.
But the sweeping judgment against all cops is way off.
they need to review their psych screening process. they obviously let a bad one through.
Pathetic. At least he’ll never work in law enforcement again.
My Father was an officer, my Uncle was an officer, my Son in law just retired from Law Enforcement, and I have worked with hundreds of officers over the years in my line of work owning a tow company.
I have been inside the blue circle all of my life. To do the job you have to have a certain degree of in-compassion and many times sadistic tendencies. You have no idea how many times I have seen pure humor and enjoyment coming from the pain and hardships they have the power to impose on other humans. Many downright enjoy causing others pain and hardship. A truly compassionate soul just could not do the job in the first place.
That is just a fact. And they will not tell you this, but they even see it in their own peers...
I'm with you there, but with yet another thought about the rabbit.
If it was a baby bunny by itself and mom was nowhere to be seen, a quick death might be the most compassionate thing to do. As I said, life is cruel for baby bunnies in the wild.
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