I might catch some flack for saying this, but that is the real outrage. The fandom and the Internet at large tends to have this unrealistic idea about "OMG we have to say the poor sweet little woodland creatures!!!!!!11!1!!". That's nice to a point, but the way this situation should have been handled was the children moved back inside, animal control called, and if a potentially rabid animal moved toward the person handling the situation, he should have defended himself. I don't think the cop did anything wrong. He went by the standard playbook.
I might catch some flack for saying this, but that is the real outrage. The fandom and the Internet at large tends to have this unrealistic idea about "OMG we have to say the poor sweet little woodland creatures!!!!!!11!1!!". That's nice to a point, but the way this situation should have been handled was the children moved back inside, animal control called, and if a potentially rabid animal moved toward the person handling the situation, he should have defended himself. I don't think the cop did anything wrong. He went by the standard playbook.