OT: Trigger-happy cops vs. two pet fawns

officer "brutally gunned down" the twin, 6-month-old fawns his family had come to love thirty yards from his home.

Carpenter said he was working in the home office when he was startled by a shotgun blast just outside the garage. At first, he thought frost may have cracked the concrete because of the cold, but he heard another shot ring out a few minutes later near the deck area.

At that point, Carpenter said he ran to the patio door to see who had opened fire in his yard at 7 a.m. and found a Forest Lake officer
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the officer said, "The DNR told me to shoot them as they may be diseased."
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the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said the officer who was dispatched to the home on the 1000 block of North Shore Trail was acting on behalf of the DNR.

The DNR said it had received several reports of collared deer in the area of Highway 97 and North Shore Trail, and e-mailed the Forest Lake Police Department to recommend that officers dispatch the deer if they were located because they "were probably captured and collared illegally."

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