http://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/national/article188099994.html
And it turns out that proper procedures weren't followed.
http://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article188234274.html
Blood stains at the end of the Crawford County, Georgia driveway had been covered up with sand Monday in the spot where a dog was beheaded with a kitchen knife early evening Friday.
Clumps of dog hair were still visible on the blood-soaked blue collar nearby.
Joe Nate Goodwin says he decapitated his 2-year-old dog at the behest of the sheriff’s deputies, who had been called out to the house earlier in the day after a neighbor was bitten on the leg.
Goodwin said he wasn’t home when a deputy came by the house. The dog lunged toward the deputy, who shot it dead near the mailbox, he said.
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One video opens with Hollis threatening to take Goodwin to jail. Goodwin asked what he would be charged with and the other officer responded, “you can be charged with disorderly conduct.”
“You can sit there all you want and try to record all you want to record,” Hollis says in the video.
“I’m protecting myself. Y’all come up to me... I’m reacting to having to cut my ... dog’s head off,” Goodwin shouted.
“We asked you to remove the dog’s head,” Hollis said. “And you’re refusing, right?”
“I ain’t got a ... knife to cut” the head off, Goodwin said.
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In a video taken after the decapitation, Hollis and the other officer can be heard giving instructions to Goodwin’s girlfriend. Big Boy’s head was placed in a white plastic bag.
“She gonna place that into the bag and they got to freeze it,” Hollis said in the video. “That can be tested for rabies, OK?”
The other officer gave the woman a phone number and told her to “meet them at the health department in Roberta with the head. Give her a call in 15-20 minutes.”
“Tonight?” she asked.
“Yes. It has to be done tonight,” the officer said. “They have to put it in the refrigerator overnight.”
And it turns out that proper procedures weren't followed.
http://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article188234274.html