The long-awaited body-camera footage showing the police shooting of HeeHaw, a one-year-old miniature donkey in Cedartown, Georgia, has finally been released, and attorneys involved in the case say the video raises serious questions about the officer’s claim that the animal was attacking police.
Attorney John Bryan, host of The Civil Rights Lawyer YouTube channel, reviewed the footage after previously speaking with attorneys Solomon Radner and Chris McCormick, who represent HeeHaw’s owner, Hannah Israel, in a federal civil rights lawsuit against Officer Trenton Garner.
Until now, the central dispute had been difficult to resolve because Garner’s account said HeeHaw charged toward officers during a nighttime search for a missing child, while Israel and her lawyers described the donkey as a gentle animal accustomed to approaching children and visitors…