US animal rights activists clash with police over Wisconsin dog breeder
About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry on Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader.
It was the second attempt in as many months by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles (about 40 kilometres) southwest of Wisconsin’s capital, Madison.
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said...
Activists Clash at Beagle Facility
- Wisconsin authorities arrest about 25 protesters at beagle breeding facility AP News —
- Wisconsin authorities put total arrests from clashes at beagle breeding facility at about 25 The Independent —
- Cops fire rubber bullets, tear gas to fend off 1,000 animal rights activists attempting to free beagles from research lab NY Post —
- Activists arrested, pepper-sprayed trying to remove beagles from Wis. breeding facility UPI —
- Hundreds try to force entry into Wisconsin beagle facility CNN —