Posted on 09/03/2022 11:40:35 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
A California lawsuit brought by the girl’s parents accuses law enforcement of traveling hundreds of miles to confiscate a beloved pet.
When a young California girl purchased a baby goat last spring, the intention was to eventually sell it at a county fair livestock auction. But after feeding and caring for the animal for months, she bonded with the goat, named Cedar, and wanted to keep it.
Jessica Long sued the Shasta county sheriff’s department seeking damages and accusing the agency of violating her daughter’s constitutional rights and wasting police resources by getting involved in a dispute between her family and a local fair association.
In July, “two sheriff’s deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta county, drove over 500 miles at taxpayer expense, and crossed approximately six separate county lines, all to confiscate a young girl’s beloved pet goat”, the lawsuit states. “As a result, the young girl who raised Cedar lost him, and Cedar lost his life.”
Instead, law enforcement officers allegedly travelled hundreds of miles to confiscate the pet, who was eventually slaughtered.
The story is laid out in a lawsuit, first reported by the Sacramento Bee, filed by the child’s parent this week, in a case that has sparked outrage and criticism that the police and the county fair went too far to reclaim the goat and send a child’s beloved pet to slaughter.
Jessica Long sued the Shasta county sheriff’s department seeking damages and accusing the agency of violating her daughter’s constitutional rights and wasting police resources by getting involved in a dispute between her family and a local fair association.
In July, “two sheriff’s deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta county, drove over 500 miles at taxpayer expense, and crossed approximately six separate county lines, all to … (more)
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There’s much more to this story than wanting to keep the goat.
The State sees normal people as the enemy.
Seems a pretty nice goat.
I gotta side with the kid on this one.
Can you two take a short trip and pickup a GTO for me? Sure thing, boss!
I wonder if it was really slaughtered or stolen as breeding stock?
“a young California girl purchased a baby goat last spring” enough said.
Sounds to me like an auctioneer was mad because he wasn’t going to get his cut from the sale.
Is goat as tasty as lamb?
This story as written is unfortunately unclear in key parts.
But if that was the deal by which she got the goat, she and her parents should have simply bought the goat at the time of the option. They could have politely explained to competing bidders what they were doing, and I bet they would have dropped out.
What’s with the GOP pol involved? Was he set up? So idiotic as to sic the police after a 9yo girl?
She contacted Dahle’s office to explain the situation and representatives for the lawmaker said they would “resist her efforts to save Cedar from slaughter”
Dahle, a Republican was buying the goat from the Fair assn.
BTW, Dahle is running for CA Governor.
SCOTUS would send it back to the states.
*auction
Back when we lived in NM, on a small ranch, I had a pet goat.
It is amazing how they can bond with you. She died as a result of a dog attack, a Pitt Bull stray and some other dogs chewed her up bad and I had to put her to sleep.
A few days later the Pitt came back and I put it to sleep with a 1911.
“Sounds to me like an auctioneer was mad because he wasn’t going to get his cut from the sale.”
After the auction the bidder agreed to give up the goat and the family offered to reimburse the action fee.
Here’s the NYTimes’s reporting on it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/us/goat-cedar-auction-shasta-county.html
So why couldn’t she buy the goat from the fair association?
> two sheriff’s deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta county, drove over 500 miles at taxpayer expense ... <
I don’t know what the whole story is here. But it’s nice to know that there is no crime in Shasta county closer than 500 miles away.
They should have named it Jose and had it identify as an undocumented lawn care specialist
One more account:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/goat-cedar-county-fair-auction-california
Sounds like Dahle and his team are idiots, whether or not the girl was within her rights.
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