Walter Gadsden in Birmingham on 3 May
1963, attacked by police dogs during a civil rights protest. Photo by Bill Hudson/AP.
There has been a lot of coverage of the military dogs who are part of the Inauguration security team. But I have yet to see someone write about the magnitude of the fact that merely a generation ago, official police dogs were used against those of the same race as our next President. It is truly astonishing.
A patrolman and a police dog go after a black man who swings at the dog with a small knife during racial demonstrat
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