Richmond has long history of controversial police use of violence RICHMOND, California––Praised in 2018 by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for significantly decreasing use of force without increasing officer fatalities, the Richmond, California police department is now under fire from critics for a marked rise in bites by police dogs, many of them severe, most of them […]
Bestiality & child porn: ex-K9 cop Terry Yetman gets 20 years
Allegedly had sex with police dog BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana––Former Bossier City police officer and K9 handler Terry Yetman, 40, was on November 23, 2021 sentenced to serve at least 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in August 2021 to six of the 71 counts he faced in connection with alleged acts of bestiality […]
Where the late Bernie Rollin got his garbled “facts” about pit bulls
“It’s in the book!” ––a 1922 work of fiction The ANIMALS 24-7 obituary for philosopher, teacher, and author Bernard Rollin (1943-2021), posted on November 20, 2021, mentioned that, “His late-career writings about pit bulls, in particular, offered no more than recitations of stock pit bull advocacy rhetoric, little if any of his material originating with […]
Animal & human heroes & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11
Remembering national trauma September 11, 2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of the national trauma the U.S. experienced as result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The aftermath of those attacks brought global traumas including ongoing warfare in much of the Middle East, Central Asia, and […]
Police dog attacks on black children soar in Baton Rouge
But black cop was disciplined for shooting a pit bull BATON ROUGE, Louisiana––A Baton Rouge Police Department K9 officer, on patrol with his dog Mack on the night of January 6, 2021, “pulled over a suspected stolen white Dodge Ram pick-up truck,” WBRZ-TV reported. “As the two waited for assisting officers to arrive, police say the […]
Congress rejects immediate repeal of dog breed bans in military housing
U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, & U.S. Air Force bans on pit bulls, Rottweilers, & wolf hybrids stand, at least until uniform military policy is adopted WASHINGTON D.C.––The first U.S. Senate action of the New Year, on the morning of January 1, 2021, quietly affirmed for at least 90 days and perhaps indefinitely the […]
Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war
Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]
Black man killed by police dog; white man threatened by cop caught at cockfight
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 […]
“Animals & thugs”: horses, dogs, police & the George Floyd protests
Horses & dogs used and misused by both cops & demonstrators NEW YORK, N.Y.–– “Stop treating us like animals and thugs, and start treating us with some respect!” fumed New York Police Benevolent Association president Mike O’Meara to a June 9, 2020 media conference. That was all O’Meara had to say about animals. The passing mention, however, raised […]
Convicted of G.I. Bill fraud: trainer who prepped pit bulls for police work
Must forfeit $1.3 million for scamming feds & veterans SAN ANTONIO, Texas––Bradley Lane Croft, 48, whom the pit bull advocacy organization Animal Farm Foundation funded from 2013 to 2017 to prepare pit bulls for police work, was on December 18, 2019 ordered to forfeit more than $1 million in assets to the federal government, following […]