NY planned to decapitate ‘Peanut’ even before the ‘squirrel raid’

New law enforcement documents shared with Secrets by Judicial Watch provided the first details about the October raid and included notes that the officials planned to euthanize the wildlife to test for rabies, even before one of the officers said “Peanut,” the squirrel bit her.

Dubbed a “squirrel raid” by the Washington-based legal watchdog, the package of 163 pages secured under a Freedom of Information Law lawsuit described an operation of overwhelming force to find Instagram star Peanut and “Fred” the raccoon after officials received a few anonymous complaints.

Among the surprises revealed, the state said it planned to test for rabies in the “pets” before the raid because raccoons are “a rabies vector species.” That required that the animals first be killed, their

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