Crime & Safety
Deer Charges Beachwood Officer on I-271
Officer tries to help doe and her fawn but gives up after doe threatens him
Lesson of the day: don’t bite the hand that feeds. Or charge at the officer trying to help you.
A June 5 report detailing an incident where a doe charges an officer trying to help her hints at frustration, ending with, “They’re on their own.”
Police report that a fawn was spotted stuck on the highway side of the fence near Interstate 271 adjacent to the Embassy Suites Hotel in the Chagrin Highlands at around 10:30 a.m. When an officer arrived, he found the doe on the opposite side of the fence from her fawn, watching her baby and in distress.
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The officer tried holding open a gap in the fence so that the fawn and its mother could reunite, but the doe charged the officer.
“They’re on their own,” the police report concludes.
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Click the PDF to the right to read the report.
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