Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry on Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader. It was the second attempt in as many months by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles (about 40 kilometres) southwest of Wisconsin’s capital, Madison. Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said in a video statement that 300 to 400 protesters were ‘violently trying to break into the property’ and assault officers. … The sheriff’s department said a ‘significant’ number of people were arrested out of about 1,000 protesters at the site but did not give an exact total as they were still being processed as of the afternoon.” (04/19/26)