Credit: Cedartown Georgia Police Department
Police have finally released the body camera footage of the despicable Georgia cop who gunned down a baby donkey back in late August, and it destroys the disgusting lie he was trying to sell to the public.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Elsberry farm owner Hannah Israel revealed that Cedartown, Georgia police officers entered her family’s pasture and killed her donkey HeeHaw after they perceived him as a “threat.”
In a post on Facebook, Israel wrote, “At 12:45 am cops entered my pasture searching for a missing person WITHOUT permission or warning and shot and killed my bottle-raised BABY donkey.”
She added, “HeeHaw was raised in the house and did petting zoos; he never knew a stranger. And was shot and killed in his OWN pasture for doing what donkeys do. Alerting to a stranger.”
At the time, the police had been reportedly called to assist a bloodhound team that was searching for a missing 12-year-old girl.
Trenton Garner, the officer who killed Heehaw, claimed taking the animal’s life was the only way to protect himself, the K-9 officer, and the team of bloodhounds.
Garner later stated that he informed his sergeant and the animal’s owner.
Now, the body camera footage, released Thursday night, CONFIRMS that Gardner’s statement was a complete lie. The footage PROVES that Heehaw was not threatening anybody.
In the video, a curious HeeHaw walks up to greet what he thinks is a ‘friendly’ police officer. The K-9 handler then shoots Heehaw with a taser.
The donkey walks away, seemingly into the night.
But Garner, who is to the side, is not satisfied and proceeds to unload a hail of bullets into the innocent animal, causing it to fall to the ground several feet away.
Garner then gets on his radio to announce he has shot a donkey and that it was trying to attack him and the other officer in the pasture.
But the video makes clear this was a cold-blooded killing.
The bodycam footage is finally out.
And now the truth is there for everyone to see.
HeeHaw wasn’t charging. He wasn’t attacking. He wasn’t some uncontrollable threat.
He was doing what everyone who knew him said he always did: running up to greet someone in his friendly, curious way.
And for that, Officer Trenton Garner shot and killed him.
Watching the footage makes this even harder to stomach. HeeHaw was a one-year-old miniature donkey, on his own property, being himself. That should never have ended with a gunshot.
For weeks, we demanded answers. We demanded the footage. We demanded accountability.
Now we have the footage, and if anything, it makes the need for justice even more urgent.
There is no world where what happened to HeeHaw should simply be accepted and forgotten.
We are furious. We are heartbroken. And we are more determined than ever.
Officer Trenton Garner must be held accountable for what happened to HeeHaw.
We will not stop speaking his name.
We will not stop pushing for answers.
We will not stop until there is justice.#JusticeForHeeHaw.
Now more than ever.— Justice For HeeHaw (@Justice4HeeHaw) October 9, 2026
Based on this horrifying video and other facts in the case, the firing of Officer Gardner is nowhere near enough. He deserves a lengthy prison sentence and a massive fine.
Our nation also needs far more stringent animal welfare laws to deter crooked cops and others from killing innocent animals in cold blood.
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