Officers stopped a runaway cow in Great Britain using their official car. The Home Secretary also commented on the incident.

Police officers rammed a runaway cow with their patrol car near London. A video of the incident is causing outrage in Great Britain.

The owners of ten-month-old Beau Lucy demanded that the police officers responsible be fired. “It looked like they wanted to kill her,” the farmer’s partner told Sky News in Staines-upon-Thames near London.

The video shows the police car violently ramming the cow, which weighs around 200 kilograms, in a residential area. The animal slides several meters across the road, gets up and keeps running. The car then drives into the cow again, which remains trapped under the car. According to the owner, the animal did not suffer any serious injuries.

British Home Secretary James Cleverly demanded a “full, urgent explanation”. The officers’ actions appeared “unnecessarily harsh”. The RSPCA animal welfare group described the footage as “disturbing and worrying”, and well-known animal rights activist Chris Packham wrote on X: “What kind of monster rams a calf?”

The police defended their actions. The cow ran through several streets on Friday evening. Callers reported that a car had been damaged and that the animal had run towards people. After several failed attempts to catch the animal over several hours, the police decided to end the escape with the police car out of concern for public safety.

The owners suspect that Beau Lucy escaped from her pasture through a river. The animal has calmed down since returning to the farm and is eating normally. “I don’t know if she will survive,” said the farmer’s partner. “She could die of shock, but hopefully she will survive.”

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