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Moments after Cabral reached into the cage and removed a beagle, someone, perhaps a worker at the farm, she says, got into a truck and rammed one of the organization’s vans. Others pulled kennels off the back of the trucks, taking some beagles back into the buildings, Cabral recalled. <\/p>\n

Deputies in Wisconsin grab a dog kennel with a beagle inside during a raid at a research facility in Wisconsin on March 15. (Direct Action Network Everywhere) <\/p>\n

Cabral says many of the activists, including herself, stayed behind at the facility after removing 22 dogs. Many activists were arrested, but Cabral says she wasn’t. <\/p>\n

Cabral returned home to Oakland soon after. But by the following month, she was back in the facility with more than 1,000 other activists. This time, however, the group was met by police who used tear gas and rubber bullets to stop them.<\/p>\n

“They were shooting us with rubber bullets, protecting a private company, and that’s a big deal,” Cabral said. “The government, authorities, they’re not meant to be used as a private security for a business.”<\/p>\n

The Dane County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> denounced claims of bias or that they were “protecting animal cruelty” in an online post, saying deputies were simply enforcing the law as “clearly defined” by legal boundaries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moments after Cabral reached into the cage and removed a beagle, someone, perhaps a worker at the farm,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-398568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}