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, the part that makes it worse, is the way he laughed about it and made a big joke of it. THAT is a indicator that there is something wrong with a person’s moral character.”
Absolutely, he sadistically enjoyed it... We see a lot of that “enjoyment” right here on this forum...
I suspected you'd reply with this kind of emotional and accusatory hyperbole.
I was willing to tolerate the annoyance in order to teach something about rural life such that the proper questions are asked before ruining this guy's career. He very possibly should be drummed out, but I'd want to know more about where he's coming from, or should I say, came from. Training a law-enforcement officer is expensive. So are officers who get into trouble.
New Mexico. SMH
This is not *emotional hyperbole*.
We live out in very rural NH and I don’t have a problem with how life in nature works.
The big problem that you’re clearly ignoring, is this guy’s lying, threatening another office, and his delight in his actions and making a joke of it.
“you can’t catch me cause the rabbit done died”
Stephen Tyler, Aerosmith...
It’s disgusting.
And he was still on duty after a previous incident of pointing a real gun at another officer when that officer wanted his phone back!
How does it get past an eval? How does it continue to be accepted? He is not the only one, I have met quite a few real winners like him. Some of them outright criminals yet they are still accepted by their peers and superiors.
Until LE starts actually policing themselves and exposing these mental cases within their own ranks they are ALL guilty in my book. It truly is guilt by association and immoral complacency.
What a load of horse sh*t. This AH is a psychopath, someone I wouldn't want anywhere near me. Threatening his coworkers with a weapon if he didn't hand over the animal so he could kill it? Really? Killing the animal then laughing and smiling for the cameras? This guy is a total misfit.
And people like you are here defending these actions? Pathetic.
Thos guy sounds like a sociopath.
Fixed. We can't know that. With experience we can develop a better understanding of the probabilities in a particular instance.
I remember well when I was cutting invasive exotic brush on our property in the year after we first moved here. The stuff was so thick one couldn't see the ground. I suddenly felt a soft thud from the blade, and saw a baby deer flung out from under a bush. It was only, only hours old, with its guts oozing out (I'd heard what I'd suspected was a doe moaning the night before but didn't know what it was). I should have killed it right away, but in my self-serving urban nature loving mind, I was so traumatized I ran home. Realizing my mistake, I had to go back and kill it. I tossed the body down the hill for something to eat it.
Or it would have become part of the natural food chain as nature intended.
"Nature" doesn't intend. That's why people matter in the "natural order." People can act as a stabilizing force to make a landscape more productive, diverse, humane, and much less destructive to itself by mitigating catastrophic events with prospective disturbance. It's what people do and this is what I have since done.
We now have over fifty deer a week coming through here on only 14 acres because of the native forage quality I have since developed. The reason I know there are so many is that I allow a bow hunter access annually and he hangs his game cameras. With his equipment and experience in animal behavior, I can construct better habitat. Over the last three years, he's taken two 3X3 bucks and one 2X3, which is an almost unheard of success rate bow-hunting coast black-tail. Why? We have a bachelor herd of seven coming through to eat my precious Clarkia rubicunda and ample Madia gracilis, which is fine, as we now have so much of both because of how I manage the habitat. As a result of that forage, their antlers and bodies are obviously very healthy.
It's what people can do.
The "Nature" myth as self-optimizing is immensely destructive ecologically, economically, and socially. It is one of my missions in life to redress some of that.
“Why I could never be cop.”
I missed this... Yes I agree. Me either. My sense of morality is much better.
Some people are so obsessed with one issue - and so willing to advertise it and exercise their self-righteousness - that they can’t see such a distinction.
Any time animal cruelty comes up here, they have to somehow make it about abortion.
I guess they think the rest of us can’t walk and chew gum at the same time -or that being concerned about abortion precludes caring about other things.
I would not want any of those officers to stop a teenage son. It could end quite brutally and be covered up with lies.
I would argue that an investigation would probably reveal that that should read past tense and the deputy likely has some 'splainin' to so for some very questionable disappearances in the area.
But I question whether an investigation would ever take place, i.e., the Sheriff would rather he go away quietly. It all depends on how deep the state police choose to dig into the cretin's private life.
You are correct. The absolute worst yet common behavior among “good” law enforcement is ignoring and covering up bad behavior of others.
So:
You say your relatives were also bad?
As a tow operator, you worked with cops for years? With? So you made money off these vile individuals for years and stuck with it, presumably never calling them out on their despicable nature? For decades? Lots of money?
You don’t even want to know my views of the corrupt collusion between PD’s and tow companies, many of which are municipal monopolies. At last count, it was over $700 to ransom a towed car where I live. Don’t try to tell me this dough doesn’t get spread around.
I’ve often noted that the criminals and sociopaths ruin the reputation of police officers for the other 99%... 95%... 90%... 60%.
In general, I’ve found the older cops to often be pretty good, and younger cops to be complete Nazi psychopaths. The psychopaths are outnumbering the public servants in more and more areas. They are trained, deliberately, to have no empathy because they terrified, pregnant, Christian woman might be White and the crazy-eyed, drug-fueled madman might be more likely to be a protected minority so any natural or instinctive kindness or reasonability must be snuffed out. So in reflexive gun training, they are taught to kill terrified, pregnant, bible-carrying women and disqualified if they shoot the crazy-eye fiend who OOPS! was pointing a toy gun or a cell phone at them.
And it makes them just as guilty... “Aiding and Abetting” is a CRIME...
It is like claiming you only drove the car during the bank robbery so therefore you didn’t actually rob the bank.
Yeah, there seems to be a huge chunk of the story missing here.
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