My friend Willow likes to kill baby rabbits. So does Alejandro Gomez. One important difference is that Willow, who also likes to eat baby rabbits, is half Border Collie and half Australian Shepherd, while Gomez is a human employed as a sheriff's deputy in Grant County, New Mexico.
A recently revealed cellphone video shows Gomez demanding that another deputy, Marcus Salas, let him hold a baby rabbit that Salas found in the middle of a dirt road while working a night shift near Hachita, New Mexico, last August along with Gomez, Sgt. Brandon Reese, and Cpl. Cesar Torres. Gomez is persistent and at one point threatens Salas with a taser. Salas does not want to hand over the rabbit because he is worried that Gomez will kill it, which is precisely what Gomez does by hurling it against a patrol vehicle after Salas, trying to de-escalate the situation, finally gives in under pressure from Reese and Torres as well as Gomez. The two supervisors, who can be heard laughing hard in the video, evidently thought the whole thing was hilarious.
