An investigation conducted by several independent news outlets and coordinated by The Marshall Project lays bare mounting evidence of extensive and disproportionate police dog use against people of color across America. approximately 3,600 Americans per year sent to the emergency room for severe bite injuries sustained during altercations with police K-9s. Though recent corporate media coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement has raised public awareness of police using disproportionate force against people of color, K-9 violence has received strikingly little public attention from the corporate media.
— source projectcensored.org, themarshallproject.org
| Mar 26, 2021