Hat tip to ghosttruck.
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“You never really know what you are going to encounter when responding to a call of a woman being chased down a street,” the Oakland Police Department posted on its Facebook page Sunday morning. “Will it be nothing, will you be getting into a physical altercation? Well this suspect was a little bit of both.”
Officer Jacob Earle responded to the call around 9 a.m. Sunday, according to a secretary at the department. It took some effort to coax the feisty goat into submission, officials said.
“(Earle) tried his freshly certified de-escalation skills, but to no avail,” the Facebook post continued. “Despite assaulting our officer a few times the suspect was ultimately restrained.”
The goat was returned to its owner by 9:15 a.m. and the woman it chased said she will not press charges.
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Goat restrained, returned to owner after chasing woman down street in Oakland
The incident took place just before 9 a.m. Sunday. The animal is not facing charges, according to Oakland police, who went to the scene.
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