[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Georgia police officer will not face criminal charges after tasing and fatally shooting a beloved miniature donkey he claimed threatened his safety.
Officer Trenton Garner, 24, was placed on administrative leave after shooting and killing the one-year-old donkey, HeeHaw, at Elsberry Farm in Cedartown.
The district attorney for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit reportedly cleared Garner of criminal charges on Tuesday.
The attorney for HeeHaw's owner, Hannah Israel, said her client hasn't received official court documentation confirming the charges were cleared.
Israel's legal team is maintaining that the shooting was unjustified and plans to pursue accountability through an ongoing civil suit.
'There was simply no justification for HeeHaw to be killed,' Israel's attorney wrote in a statement to Fox 5.
'There's no universe in which he posed any danger whatsoever. Our battle for accountability will continue.'
Israel’s legal team emphasized that they will press forward with their civil lawsuit.
Officer Garner initially crossed paths with the donkey on the night of August 29 after he was called to assist a bloodhound team that was searching for a missing 12-year-old girl, according to the incident report reviewed by the Daily Mail.
Garner wrote that he and the other officers followed footprints on a trail that led to a pasture owned by Elsberry Riding and Farm, a local business that offers petting zoos, pony rides and trail rides.
Because of the 'exigency of locating this missing juvenile,' the cops entered the pasture and were soon met with horses that got 'spooked' and ran away, the report said.
After that, a K-9 handler said he saw a donkey before the animal 'began to charge at us,' Garner recalled.
In an attempt to 'deter' the animal, the K-9 handler tased the animal, but when that didn't work, Garner drew his Glock 17 from his holster and pointed it at HeeHaw, he said.
The officer, who was sworn onto the force in July 2023, then said he fired one shot at the male donkey, causing it to 'retreat up the hill before falling over.'
He said he fired the gun to protect himself, the K-9 officer, and the team of bloodhounds from the baby animal, Garner stated in the report.
Israel raised over $100,000 in funds through a GoFundMe account.
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[ColonelCassad] How a Free VPN Became the Largest Botnet: The Story of Hola and Luminati
It all began in 2012 in the coastal Israeli city of Netanya, when two veterans of the local telecom industry, Ofer Vilensky and Derry Shribman (who had previously sold their startup to Cisco for a profit), founded Hola. The idea seemed brilliant and noble: to give the world a free, revolutionary P2P VPN.
The service didn't require payment—millions of users worldwide rushed to download the Hola browser extension and mobile apps to watch blocked Netflix, download torrents, and bypass local censorship. But free cheese in cyberspace always comes at a price: security.
The fine print of the license agreement concealed a legal caveat: by installing Hola, the user agreed to become an intermediary for a so-called affiliate network. This affiliate network turned out to be Vilensky's secretive B2B division, Luminati Networks. While some people were watching TV shows through a free VPN, their home IP address and internet were being rented out to large corporate clients at exorbitant per-gigabyte rates.
Israeli engineers essentially built the largest commercial botnet in history, using tens of millions of volunteer users as "drops." But in May 2015, this lie was exposed. Fredrick Brennan, owner of the popular portal 8chan, faced a colossal DDoS attack that standard security gateways couldn't filter. The traffic was coming from real home computers around the world running Hola. It turned out that an unknown customer had simply approached Luminati, paid money, and exploited a network of unsuspecting users to bring down the site.
A scandal erupted: security researchers discovered critical vulnerabilities in Hola's code that allowed for the remote execution of arbitrary code on users' machines. The service was declared a threat, and a mass removal from extension directories began. However, Vilensky didn't even consider closing down the business. He simply confirmed: yes, we are selling your internet; we never concealed this in the agreement.
Their business proved so profitable that in 2017, the British private equity firm EMK Capital acquired a controlling stake in Luminati for nearly $200 million. And in 2021, to finally shed the toxic taint of botnet scandals, the company underwent a major rebranding and changed its name to Bright Data.
Who is really behind this structure? As with the developers of the Pegasus spyware, Bright Data's core staff and management hail from Unit 8200 (the Israeli equivalent of the NSA) and elite military cyber units. In Israel, the line between offensive state cyber operations, OSINT collection, and the commercial market is traditionally blurred.
The Bright Data network has become the primary shadow tool for Western intelligence contractors, private detective agencies, US government agencies, and geopolitical monitoring institutions. It can be used to conduct deep reconnaissance (WEBINT), scan enemy secure databases, manipulate social media algorithms, and download restricted resources of other countries without the slightest risk of diplomatic repercussions.
And recently, Bright Data published a new patent.
Modern smartphone operating systems and stores like Google Play have declared war on hidden proxy apps: they are being scrubbed and access blocked. User software has become an unreliable channel. This is why Bright Data is moving to the next level of parasitism—hardware.
The official narrative behind the new patent is as follows: the engineers are allegedly concerned with protecting ordinary users from intrusive website surveillance, digital fingerprint tracking, and geoblocking. But, remembering the company's history, we understand: this is a covert cyber intelligence (OSINT) infrastructure deployed directly in the apartments and cars of users who are unaware of it—including those tempted by a free router from their internet service provider (these scenarios are described in the patent).
The essence of what the patent describes is an intermediate device in the living space: a separate "box" or module integrated with a router or sensor. Inside, a browser runs without a graphical interface, emulating another device or user and disguising requests as normal home traffic. Sections of the patent mention household appliances, smart homes, and automotive CAN, LIN, and MOST buses.
After this, the spy network no longer needs to send suspicious requests from its servers. Instead, the data collection command is sent to a smart microwave or router. The device emulates a real browser on the fly, using a real home IP address from a provider like Rostelecom, generates a digital fingerprint, and downloads sensitive target data. To the target server, it appears as if the average citizen simply opened a webpage in a browser.
The stealth logic described in the patent deserves special attention. The system includes "idle state" analysis algorithms. The device literally monitors its owner: it reads accelerometer data, monitors network load drops, screen shutdowns, and battery controller status. As soon as you park the car or turn off the monitor, the "parasite box" activates and begins transmitting reconnaissance traffic.
Why is this necessary on a global scale? Under the guise of "marketing research," an invisible army of bots is deployed, capable of hacking government portals, scanning enemy infrastructure vulnerabilities, and collecting classified data sets, bypassing any national firewall. And in the event of a block or investigation, the router owner—an ordinary person who didn't even realize their home internet was being used by foreign intelligence—takes the brunt.
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