Wayne Hsiung

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The district attorney is a Democrat.

He's a black man who says he wants to defend the vulnerable.

But money still talks.

And this is an industry that has tens of billions of dollars and is the biggest employer, private employer in the entire county.

And they have enormous influence.

So at least hundreds, probably thousands of people had called that morning about animal cruelty at Bridgeland Farms because there had been overwhelming evidence, including a recent state inspection, finding hundreds of additional counts of surgical mutilations that had been unaddressed by the government.

And that morning, a number of us walked in, took some of the dogs out.

And when the dogs were placed in rescue vans, and some of the vans even drove off, the police stopped many of the vans.

And as you said, there was an officer who literally dragged a crate out of a back of a rescue van in the freezing rain.

The crate just very, very kind of

and heavy heavy clang drops onto the ground and she just drags this crate and this pup is cowering and scared in the freezing rain tries to shove the crate into the back of her police cruiser realizes it won't fit and so she just pulls a dog out roughly and throws a dog in the back of the truck and this is while there are dozens of people around this officer just begging and pleading and asking for her humanity asking for compassion

We had people who were grandmothers holding flowers and just praying and begging this officer to do something to help the dogs.

And again, it's not just about protecting protesters' rights because we can have a discussion about whether the protesters did the right thing.

This is about enforcing the law because there have been numerous counts of animal cruelty that have been verified by four state agencies.

And these dogs are victims of crimes.

But the officers, as far as we can tell, did not even bother to investigate the animal cruelty, did not retain the evidence and look at the condition of the dogs that determined whether they had been abused, whether they were suffering from psychosis from a lifetime in a cage.

Instead, they just returned the dogs right back to Ridgeland Farms where they're going to suffer more abuse.

Yeah.

Yeah, so the primary kind of person responsible for failing to protect the dogs and enforce the law is a district attorney in Dane County, a Democrat, again, named Ismael Azan.