Texas Students Horrified As Police Officer Uses Pepper Spray On Baby Squirrel

Never content to let Florida get away with all the freaky news, Texas has come forward with a good one for your Friday viewing pleasure: video shot by students at a middle school in Mesquite, Texas of a school resource officer taking down a baby squirrel–with pepper spray. And it all happens, of course, as kids scream–and shoot the thing on a camera phone.

Parents who saw the video went to a local television station, saying not only did the police officer use “excessive force,” but the school’s principal really stepped up as a good example by kicking the baby squirrel, who we’re told may have been acting strangely by approaching kids before law enforcement stepped in:

According to Sgt. Wes Talley of the Mesquite Police Department, the squirrel had been behaving erratically in the moments before what is shown in the video.

Um, do squirrels ever not behave “erratically?”

At last report, the baby squirrel was cleaned up, checked out, and released.

Watch it here, from CBS:

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