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DANVILLE, VIRGINIA

A Virginia man on a police ride-along was found guilty of animal cruelty after he jumped out of the police car and stomped an opossum to death. The Danville Register & Bee reported Tuesday that 23-year-old Evan Bryce Schuler saw the opossum run along a fence. A police officer testified that Schuler ran up to the fence, grabbed the links and "started stomping."

Schuler's lawyer, James Priest, said Schuler grew up on a farm where opossums killed his chickens and acted on instinct. Priest appealed the district court's ruling and the case will move to circuit court.

Comments (4)

flewster: ... you have got to be kidding me..........been there done that on duty....hey are nasty animals that carry disease, kill other domestic animals and .......well..........this is just stupid......or should I say the DA acted stupidly.......... 1 October 22, 2009 vdubpig: i hate opossums too... but you gotta be kidding me? It's okay to jump out of a car and stomp wildlife to death? Really? In a police car? What if a kid saw you do that? AMAZING. 2 October 22, 2009 BeachCop: ... I had a reserve driving one night when an opossum ran across the road. He swerved completely across the road in an effort to run it over. I chewed his ass and wrote him up. We can't do stupid stuff like that in a patrol car. If an animal lover saw that, he'd be toast. 3 October 23, 2009 CPDBRANCH: Got to be the stupidest thing Ive heard a ride along do. Are you serious? I don't care for the things, but I'm not doing that on duty. Lack of judgement on behalf of the ride- along. 4 October 24, 2009

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