It’s idiotic of him that he refused to follow direct orders. And it’s typical of our modern -extremist- government that if a deer lets an officer pet it, it obviously needs to be killed on the spot as a menace.
All my life there has been the occasional campground or neighbor or whatever where a tame deer lets people feed it or something. Sane people enjoy such things.
He needs some serious psych evaluation.
“He needs some serious psych evaluation.”
He probably failed his initial psych evaluation and the department hired him anyway. That’s a very common occurrence in the policing industry.