The City Where Police Unleash Dogs On Black Teens

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Roughly one of every three people bitten by Baton Rouge police dogs were teenagers 17 or younger — some as young as 13. That’s one teen bitten every three weeks, on average.

The City Where Police Unleash Dogs On Black Teens
In Baton Rouge, police dogs bit a teenager 17 or younger every three weeks, on average.
themarshallproject.org
9:08 AM · May 16, 2021

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/02/12/the-city-where-police-unleash-dogs-on-black-teens

Charles Carey was riding his dirt bike through north Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in June 2019 when a police cruiser flipped on its lights.

The bike had no license plate, and the 17-year-old thought police just wanted it off the road, he said. So he sped away. Officers gave chase.

He hit a stump and went flying, busting open his chin. He got up and ran, then hid under a house. Officers set loose a dog to go after him. The animal bit his foot, then his knee. He kept screaming as the dog dragged him out from under the house. Police camera footage shows him yelling, “My leg!” as officers questioned him.

Between 2017 and 2019, Baton Rouge police dogs bit at least 146 people, records show. Of those, 53 were 17 years old or younger; the youngest were just 13. Almost all of the people bitten were Black, and most were unarmed and suspected by police of nonviolent crimes like driving a stolen vehicle or burglary.

The Baton Rouge Police Department is an extreme outlier compared with many other police agencies across the country, in how often it uses dogs to subdue people of all ages—and in particular how often its dogs bite teenagers, once every three weeks, on average.

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