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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    24 days ago

    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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      22 days ago

      morally I agree with the sentiment

      You should align your actions with your morals and go vegan

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          22 days ago

          Yea, since you called it vegetarianism but that might’ve been a spelling error

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            22 days ago

            Just lazy language use from me here I think.