Public records requests reveal how cops killed Joseph Lee Pettaway; threatened Steve Hindi MANCHESTER, Kentucky; MONTGOMERY, Alabama––“White privilege,” in parts of the rural South, could be defined as being able to find out through public records requests that corrupt and sadistic cops might want to kill you before they actually do it. This, anyhow, appears […]
Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”
BL Cozad garbled Bible & U.S. Constitution MORGANTOWN, Kentucky––If cockfighting advocate BL “Billy” Cozad had ever actually read the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21, instead of blindly denouncing it, he might have found that certain passages in it better support his arguments than anything he misquoted and misrepresented from the Bible and […]
Wildfires, COVID-19, & cockfighting besiege Monterey County
Cockfighting may be accelerant behind COVID-19 explosion MONTEREY, California––The 50,000-acre River wildfire, destroying at least 13 homes, and the 7,000-acre Carmel wildfire, razing 50 homes, reportedly forced the evacuation of more than 500 animals to the SPCA for Monterey County shelter during the fourth week of August 2020––and then forced the animals’ re-evacuation to the […]
Pro-cockfighting rally draws fewer participants than local cockfights
Apathy thwarts “Call To Action BBQ” VERBENA, Alabama––One inept attempt to rally nationwide support for cockfighting, convened on short notice amid a global pandemic, scarcely means the multi-million-dollar cockfighting industry is unraveling, protected as it is by “good old boys” in legislatures and law enforcement. But that fewer people rallied in defense of cockfighting on […]
Triple murder in Frostproof: pig hunting, cockfighting, Publix & pizza
Doesn’t everyone order 10 double cheeseburgers at McDonald’s after killing three catfishers? FROSTPROOF, Florida––Brandon Rollins, 27, Keven Springfield, 30, and Damion Tillman, 23, were shot to death at Lake Streety, Florida, on the night of July 17, 2020, much as the three of them had cornered and killed countless feral pigs. But Rollins, Springfield, […]
Kentucky state cops let 33 cars leave alleged cockfight before investigating
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness caught the “great escape” on video PINE KNOT, Kentucky––Duane Pohlman, chief investigative reporter for the Cincinnati television station WKRC, aired quite a scoop about cockfighting continuing in Kentucky on Monday, July 6, 2020, using undercover video collected by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) with Humane Farming Association Funding. […]
Iconic animal use events fall to COVID-19: “Running of the bulls” is latest
“Social distancing” also shuts down SeaWorld, seal hunt, fur auctions, Kentucky Derby, & the carriage horses in Central Park PAMPLONA, Spain ––The 700-year-old Festival of San Fermin, featuring bullfights and the “running of the bulls” through the cobbled streets of the oldest part of Pamplona, Spain, was on April 21, 2020 indefinitely postponed due […]
More cockfighters than stars in Doris Day/Clint Eastwood country?
Cock-breeding explodes around Carmel-by-the-Sea MONTEREY, California––By the look of it, more might have been done in Monterey County to enforce legislation against breeding gamecocks if California had remained a U.S. territory in 1850 instead of becoming a state, four years after overthrowing Spanish rule. Exulted Humane Society of the U.S. president Kitty Block […]
Cockfighters vs. coal miners, Taiji vs. Hong Kong: animal suffering gets lost
What happens when animal issues are overwhelmed by current events? HARLAN COUNTY, Kentucky; TAIJI, Japan; BALI, Indonesia––A trainload of coal worth $1.4 million, blockaded for six weeks by illegally laid off miners whose last pay checks bounced, might at a glance appear to have nothing to do with an alleged cockfighting ring run by […]
District Attorney will not prosecute alleged bull-baiting at Salinas rodeo
Monterey County SPCA does not speak up, either SALINAS, California––The 2019 California Rodeo Salinas ended on July 19, 2019, but the stench of manure––bovine, equine, and canine––lingers on above the Salinas Sports Complex. The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office, headed since January 2019 by longtime California Rodeo Salinas volunteer Jeannine Pacioni, reportedly recently rendered […]
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