Cops fired and charged after beating animals to death

Officers Addison Cox and Mike Rolerson were fired from the police department in Rockland, Maine, after "beating porcupines to death," reports The Courier Gazette.

Another officer told the investigators that at another time, he was in a cruiser with Rolerson on Bog Road in Rockland, when Rolerson suddenly slammed on the brakes, ran out of the cruiser, leaving the door open and beat a porcupine.

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