I’ve been on many raids where drugs were ‘protected’ by Dobermans, Rottweilers, German Shepherds and Pit Bulls, and in only one of them were we attacked by any of the dogs. A Pit Bull was the lone exception and he was dispatched with one shot. I don’t doubt that some cops, including DEA agents, may shoot a dog, given the chance, just for the thrill of popping a cap, and not because it was necessary to keep from being attacked.
HOUSTON’S ‘NORML’ CHAPTER PEES ON THE DEA IN PROTEST
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
April 4, 2011
It's not likely to rank up there with the great protests of all time, but it has been documented forever.
Members of the Houston chapter of NORML [National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws] gathered outside the regional offices of the Drug Enforcement Agency yesterday to protest what they say is the agency's habit of killing pets while making drug raids. (One way to stop this, NORML says, would be to decriminalize weed.)
The DEA says they have to kill animals to protect themselves, NORML's Steven Nolin says, but instead they act "like death squads of Third World countries."
So Nolin's dog relived himself on the DEA lawn, protesters held up signs and chanted, and we expect movement on this issue very soon.
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