[E. Pluribus Unum]

First of all, leave the damned fawn alone.

The doe might be gone for hours, but she'll come back.

The fawn is a lot better off where it belongs.

[WayneS]

While I agree with you that the correct course of action regarding wild animals is usually to leave them alone, once the foolish (but apparently well-intentioned) citizen took the fawn to the shelter, the shelter workers appear to have acted appropriately. They seem to me to have taken the only realistic course of action open to them short of simply killing the animal.

And I certainly do not think their actions justified the police engaging in an overzealous SWAT-style raid of the animal shelter using full military-style armament.