I'm not being snarky, just asking an honest question because I don't know. Do some of you live in an area where if you shot a coyote in a subdivision, you wouldn't be having a talk with Johnny Law? I know the area of CA where this happened. Houses are literally 20' or less apart in those housing tracts. At least a dozen neighbors would have called the cops on the guy, and he would likely have been taken to the pokey.
I 100% agree that you don't want yotes walking around that have a taste for human veal, but the neighborhood in the video is just a bad place to shoot. Even here in gun crazy Idaho, I suspect if someone shot a coyote in the street in North End Boise, there would be a half dozen cop cars there licktey split. Obviously once you're out in the 1 acre plus subdivisions the rules change.