‘Inhumane Is All I Can Say!’

A witness said he was ‘disgusted’ at seeing the police ram a terrified calf with their squad car as people called for the officers to be sacked.

Kai Bennetts, 22, said the young cow was left with an ‘open gash’ and ‘loads of grazes where the skin had come off’ after it was hit by the police car and thrown several metres down the road.

He said that on the first strike, the cow ‘tried to get back up, and then they (the police) pushed it back over and blocked it by its neck and top half of his body and so it couldn’t get up.’ Mr Bennetts added: ‘Inhumane is all I can say.’

Calls are growing for the ‘monsters’ who rammed the calf to be sacked after a new video showed the bovine calmly wandering down the street before officers swooped in and said they had to knock the animal down to keep the public safe.

Shocking footage shows police brutally smashing into the calf twice after it escaped from its enclosure as a nearby member of the public in Staines-upon-Thames, west London, shouts: ‘What are you doing that for?’.

Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham, Home Secretary James Cleverly and Deborah Meaden were among those condemning the ‘brutal’ actions of the police force. 

Mr Packham wrote on X: ‘I don’t know where to start with this. But it’s surely illegal and must be investigated and prosecuted. What sort of monster rams a calf? Twice?’

Home Secretary James Cleverly also asked for a ‘full, urgent explanation’ as to why officers appeared to use a police car to hit an escaped cow. He said the police action seemed ‘unnecessarily heavy-handed’.

The RSPCA described the footage as ‘upsetting and distressing’ and said the police ‘action appears disproportionate to the situation’. 

Deborah Meaden also took to X to voice her shock over the incident, writing: ‘Jeez….that is a scared, living, breathing creature and @SurreyPolice show such little compassion they decide ramming it with a vehicle is their only option….come on!!

‘I know it’s not all Police but seriously….this really must have serious consequences.’

Actor James Dreyfus decided not to share the toe-curling footage but expressed his anger at how the officers had treated the ‘terrified cow’.

He posted: I’m not reposting the utterly horrific video taken of these b* running over an escaped terrified cow. Not once. Not twice. But THREE times.

At first, I assumed the police had accidentally run over the calf, but the b**** did it on purpose. The public wasn’t in danger because the calf wasn’t charging at anyone; it could have easily been returned to the farm.

Police who can do this would be the same people who would set off red flags with a psychiatrist. Unfortunately, many appear to get into the police force and clearly have sociopathic traits.

Although many of these characteristics are regrettably prevalent in today’s society as a whole, it is unsettling to see them in someone in a position of perceived power. Fortunately, not all of them are this way.

The police are not being held responsible for their acts; if a member of the public had done this, they would have been arrested.

It’s not complicated; all the police needed to do was summon a veterinarian to tranquillize the animal. It was a calf, not a knife-wielding terrorist, a mad-kicking horse, or even a bull. If the big brave boys in blue can’t usher a calf into a place of safety, then we really are in a vulnerable place.