Black Bear shot.....why?

[Catherine]

Quote:Thank goodness that police are not routinely armed in the UK. Armed marksmen are only reserved for shoot-outs with armed criminals, not for innocent animals showing no aggression. Even escaped zoo animals such as tigers and lions are tranquillised.

That is right. Britain does not give guns to every police officer. You are a safer place because of it and you don't have rampant crime and violence.

Out police are not as bad as our neighbour's police, but they have their bad moments. One police officer shot a mentally ill guy 9 times.
A group of them tazered an old lady with Alzheimer's disease.
They are both dead,

I guess I am not surprised that they shot the bear, but I had hoped the ministry of wildlife would have been able to get there in time.