COPS behead 5yo's pet chicken in his yard

An Atwater woman has filed a formal complaint against the Atwater Police Chief for trespassing on her property and killing her young son’s pet chicken – leaving the hen’s decapitated head just feet from the backyard chicken coop.


Ashley Turnbull said she knows she violated the city’s ordinance that prohibits fowl and acknowledges she was told Aug. 7 by police to remove the three chickens and two ducks.

But she said Police Chief Trevor Berger went too far when he came onto her property about a week later, when nobody was home, and clubbed, killed and decapitated a small, red hen with a shovel.

“The chicken was like a puppy dog to my son,” said Turnbull. “You wouldn’t do that to a puppy.”

“It’s against city ordinance for a chicken to be in the city and running around in people’s yards,” he said.

Turnbull said Berger didn’t handle the situation professionally.

“I still feel he owes my son an apology and he owes us a chicken, said Turnbull, who filed a written complaint with the Atwater Police Commissioner on Aug. 20.

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