Last night’s protest: Deer defenders at JoCo parks meeting

Mike Egan’s opinion wasn’t well received by the emotional crowd that packed the meeting of the Johnson County Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners last night. Facing an audience filled with animal rights’ activists from Bite Club of KC, Egan was the lone voice supporting the commissioner’s plan to cull the deer in Shawnee Mission Park. As he stood at the microphone, more than 20 people stood up angrily and left the room shouting.

“Murderers!”

“Killers!”

“How do you sleep at night?”

Jason Miller, the founder of Bite Club, said the activists’ animated presence at the meeting was just the first step in creating “a public relations’ nightmare” for the board.