Glad to see people care, tho. Enough to get mad and vent on-line. Maybe humans don't suck after all
People who hate people will bag on the people.
People who hate cops will bag on the cops.
People who hate animals will hate the animal.
I don't know the geography of Chicago. All I can use are those statements given by officials at the scene, anything on a website is too subjective.
The officials at the scene say a good sized cougar was on the move in a residential area near an elementary school, they found it and shot it. I'm assuming that every effort was taken to use whatever dart rifle or trap was available and prudent as there's no reason for there not to have been. That the animal unfortunately came across officers with firearms as opposed to one with a dart gun is just the last bit of bad luck in the cougar's already string of unfortunate events.
But he was in a residential area, he is a large predator, and according to the C.O.P. there was an elementary school near-by. That's
THREE very big things to consider when combined. And it's consideration began when you get an emergency phone-call in
downtown Chicago, not Africa! People who handle spousal abuse and pot busts combined with the dog-catcher to find and handle a cougar. Now. Right now before somebody in the neighborhood gets hurt, before the news crews show up, before the spectators show up.