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Bakersfield cops use a cat as target practice and killed it. But it's okay they've been disciplined. (www.kget.com)
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Kern County Sheriff’s deputies accused of using a cat as target practice have been disciplined and they’re back at work.

The incident happened at the Hart Park training facility back in March.

A woman walking in the park said she saw the deputies shoot a cat and kill it.

This case is completed. The allegations were sustained. The officers involved were appropriately disciplined. I met with animal rights groups; they’re content with what we’re doing,” Youngblood said on 17 News at Sunrise. “They’re back to work, but they’ve been disciplined and that’s about all I can tell you without violating the peace officer bill of rights.”

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[–] 78 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This kind of violence towards animals is strongly associated with psychopathy. These should really be kicked off the force and sentenced to several years in jail.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd prefer the be sentenced to lifelong intensive therapy for impulse control.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The problem with psychopaths is that their brains are defective. They don’t have a mental illness so they can’t be treated. They are parasites on society who feel no remorse and are only motivated by their own desires. They are not at all deterred by threat of punishment. The best you can hope for is that they channel their efforts into a productive career. But if they have violent sexual desires they really should be locked up for life.

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  • [+] -53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    This kind of violence towards animals is strongly associated with psychopathy

    Almost everyone kills animals for pleasure, are you saying only vegans are not psychopaths?

    Edit: since I am getting downvoted let me clarify; all major dietician organizations say you can live healthily on a vegan diet and therefore the only reasons remaining for eating meat are culture, habit and taste which are pleasures, not necessities.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Killing and having something killed are not the same, but carry on.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The comment I replied to asks for several years of jail for whomever kills an animal. Why should slaughterhouse workers be exempt?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Presumably for the same reason doctors carrying out MAIDs and executioners can carry out their jobs of killing people- it's state sanctioned.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That doesn’t hold up. Doctors can’t do that to non-consenting others, and executioners can’t do that to innocent others. Animals do not consent to being killed nor can they be convicted murderers.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I think the psychopathy here comes from the desire to commit this violence, the meat industry abstracts the violence away from the consumer, so I don't think the argument holds.

    Which is to say vegetarianism would be more prevalent if the consumer had to hold the bolt gun themselves ( that and more people would become desensitized to this kind of animal cruelty )

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    However much it’s abstracted away, a slaughterhouse worker still has to slit the animals throat.

    In this day and age you can just go online and see what happens in slaughterhouses and see your “food” get gassed, lobotomized, stabbed, electrocuted or boiled alive so saying it’s okay because you didn’t know is just too naïve.

    Note that vegetarianism is just a diet, not a stance against the exploitation of animals. (Eg hens are killed for eggs, baby cows are killed for milk and cows are killed for leather which are all usually still eaten/used by vegetarians)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For sure, all very emotive arguments morally I agree with the sentiment.

    My rebuttal was to you ascribing psychopathy to the general public because they eat meat, I expect you'll see a much lower than average score for empathy across slaughterhouse workers ( and probably more psychopathy as well )

    Tbh, it would be interesting to see what happened to meat consumption if we introduced laws mandating abattoir imagery on meat packaging.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    morally I agree with the sentiment

    You should align your actions with your morals and go vegan

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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    • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If they're violent towards animals imagine how they treat humans...

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    • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    The proper discipline for this action is losing your job and going to jail for animal cruelty.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sure would be a shame if someone used those cops for target practice.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The panthers took back their neighborhoods with a well organized militia. Some violence is necessary. Fear of more does most of the heavy lifting. Can't communicate unless we speak their language.

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    • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    These monster shot in fucking public for fucking recreational purposes! That's at least a dozen laws broken, GO TO FUCKING PRISON! America is a fucking shit show!

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    If you Don't Like MURDERING CATS your a LIBTARD COMMUNIST!

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    that’s about all I can tell you without violating the peace officer bill of rights.

    Ah, I get it; cops have the regular rights and extra "peace officer bill of rights" too!

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    [+] -29 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Fucked up but still less bad than what happens nationwide in factory farms to millions of animals per year

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This has the same energy as "Oh that cop beat that black man? Well that's not as bad as all those Palestine kids being murdered by Israel."

    It's not a game of what sucks worse.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    If over 90% of people recognize the smaller injustice for what it is (extremely fucked up) but don't care about the larger one, then I think it's relevant to bring up, so people can see their hypocrisy

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