Bad Decision for Bad River Town!!
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the State’s Attorney of Stanley County is leaning towards not procecuting in the horse abuse case. This may be a way to save face locally but looking at it unbias. It could be a huge mistake for the River Cities of Pierre and Fort Pierre. The Stanley County Fairgrounds host the 4-H Rodeo Finals, the JR. High Rodeo Finals, a Little Britches Rodeo, an independent 4-H Rodeo, an SDRA Rodeo, and this August they are hosting a PRCA Rodeo. These are major events for the local economy, and if the rodeo community decides to start boycotting these events or Associations pull their events from the Stanley County Fairgrounds because of this tragedy, that will pull millions of dollars of revenue out of these two towns. Fort Pierre is the home of Casey Tibbs, has been host to the State 4-H Rodeo Finals as long as there has been one, wouldn’t it be awful if Fort Pierre lost these events because we don’t want to prosecute.
I am not calling for a boycott, I think the facts need to be revealed in a court of law, but if this does not go to court, boycotts are a real possibility.
I have heard there are as many as 10 eye witnesses to what went on, if that is true why wouldn’t there at least be signed warrants by now? I’m not saying anyone is guilty, I believe you are innocent until proven otherwise, but I do believe that if Stanley County doesn’t at least try to hold someone accountable, it may hurt the pocketbooks of the enire area, not just the horse owner.