WISN 12 News obtains DNR's records related to fawn takedown [View all]
DNR emails reveal what led to raid, how Giggles was killed
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After a nationwide response to a WISN 12 News investigation on a raid at a Kenosha animal shelter, WISN 12 News reveals the chain of command that authorized 14 armed agents to hunt down a fawn.
The details come from the government's own records -- hundreds of pages of emails and documents that detail the planning for a raid to capture and kill a 20-pound deer known as Giggles.
VIDEO: WISN 12 News investigates what really happened to Giggles
Wisconsin law forbids the possession of wildlife, but many were stunned by the Department of Natural Resources' response to the baby deer.
WISN 12 News took the DNR's paperwork to the players for answers about an operation that's raised questions about government over-reaching and oversight.
She was a white-tailed fawn, abandoned by her mother, and, to Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources, an outlaw.
"Nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth," Ray Schulze, of St. Francis Shelter, said on Aug. 1.
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