Because the ignorance is at legendary levels this week.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-police-dog-as-weapon-of-racial-terror/
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Some of the most horrifically indelible images of the Civil Rights struggle show police dogs attacking young demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Birmingham became emblematic of animalistic police brutality against non-violent protestorsâbut it wasnât unique at the time. And the racial weaponization of dogs isnât just something of that time, as examples from Abu Ghraib (2004) to Ferguson (2014) show.
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There were experiments with police dogs in England as early as the 1870s and Paris in the 1910s. Police dogs appeared on the streets of New York in 1907, but law enforcement âcanine corpsâ didnât become institutionalized until after Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955â1956). Baltimore (1956) and St. Louis (1958) were the pioneers. By early 1960, at least twenty-four police departments had K-9 units. Many more would soon follow, by no means confined to the South.
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(And you absolutely know that Bingo got shot by a cop.)
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #BingoTheDog #PoliceDogAttack
