On a snowy March day in 1951, Minneapolis Traffic Police encountered an unusual traffic safety hazard.
A 100 pound deer bounded down Groveland Avenue for some time until it was finally safely captured at Chicago Avenue and 25th Street.
Officers Robert Byrnes, Frank Sacre, and Marvin Bentley posed with the deer before handing it over to the Game Warden for release outside of the Minneapolis.
On another occasion, in 1940, Minneapolis Park Police Officer W.R. James is shown checking on a deer that he had rescued from a group of boys at Minnehaha Park.
Top photograph from the Minneapolis Tribune of March 20, 1951
Bottom photograph courtesy of Hennepin County Library