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Digital Journal Plain City - Warning: this story is deeply disturbing.
Nearly 200 police showed up to protect a dairy farm after a protest organizer threatened to tear the farm apart, urging people to bring weapons.
After undercover video footage emerged showing violent acts of cruelty against cows and calves at an Ohio dairy farm, outraged animal rights activists urged protesters to tear the farm apart. In anticipation of a large, possibly violent protest, over 150 police officers turned out to protect Conklin Dairy Farms Inc. Only a handful of people showed up to protest, and they were peaceable, reported 10TV.
The animal cruelty at Conklin Dairy Farms Inc. was exposed by Mercy for Animals. The graphic footage depicts a man stomping the head of a living calf, a man beating cows with a crowbar, as well as stabbing at other cows with a pitchfork, among other abuses. Mercy for Animals conducted a four week undercover operation in April, netting in the footage and the arrest of Conklin Dairy employee, Billy Joe Gregg on May 26th. Gregg was charged with 12 counts of animal cruelty; and subsequently fired by Conklin Dairy Farms Inc.
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