Please Drop Charges Against Veteran for Saving Dog

Michael Hammons saved an apparently distressed dog from a hot car but was arrested for trespassing.

"I heard someone say there was a dog in distress in a hot car," he said, according to WXIA-TV.

Without thinking, the Desert Storm veteran jumped into action. Diane Byard, a witness, was quoted saying that she and a group of shoppers had noticed the dog in the car and were waiting on police before Hammons came.

"He says we can't let this dog die, and he starts smashing the windows. And with his wife's wheelchair leg, he smashed the window, freeing the dog."

Mr Hammons reportedly suffers from PTSD and did not want the dog to suffer "if he could do something about it".

According to the article, witnesses stated that when the owner came out of the store, she was furious, and demanded deputies take action.

Georgia state law does allow an individual to break a window to save a child in a hot or cold car, but not a pet. That is something that animal advocates say they are working to change, the article states.

Animal lives matter and people who help save them should be celebrated, not arrested! Sign my petition urging Oconee County to drop all charges against Mr. Hammons!