{"id":2504,"date":"2013-10-20T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T22:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2013-10-23T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T23:03:09","slug":"after-releasing-dogs-animal-rights-activists-violently-clash-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2013\/10\/20\/after-releasing-dogs-animal-rights-activists-violently-clash-with-police\/","title":{"rendered":"After Releasing Dogs, Animal Rights Activists Violently Clash With Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Associated Press<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"r1PostCPBlock\">SAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 Animal rights activist Saturday clashed with police in front of a laboratory in southeastern Brazil that used dogs for drug tests.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2505\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10_brazilbeagles_aftermath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2505\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2505\" alt=\"Demonstrators run away from the Instituto Royal laboratory to escape tear gas fired by police, as a police car burns along a road leading to the lab in Sao Roque, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. (AP Photo\/Nelson Antoine) \" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10_brazilbeagles_aftermath.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators run away from the Instituto Royal laboratory to escape tear gas fired by police, as a police car burns along a road leading to the lab in Sao Roque, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. (AP Photo\/Nelson Antoine)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The clash came one day after activists broke into the Instituto Royal laboratory in Sao Roque and released 178 beagles being used to test for adverse effects of drugs manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"r1PostCPBlock\">\n<p>Officer Edivaldo Nunes of the Sao Roque police department said by telephone that about 500 activists tried to break through barriers set up in front of the laboratory following Friday\u2019s break-in.<\/p>\n<p>He said several members of the so-called Black Block anarchist group were among the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hurled rocks and set fire to a police car and to two cars of a local television station,\u201d Nunes said, adding that police responded with tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd. He did not know if anyone was hurt or arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes said that \u201ca large group of activists shouting \u2018save the dogs\u2019 stormed the lab early Friday morning and drove away with the animals.<\/p>\n<p>He said none of the dogs have been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Phone calls to the lab for comment went unanswered on Saturday.<br \/>\nRead more at <a href=\"http:\/\/americanlivewire.com\/activists-clash-with-police-2013-10\/\">http:\/\/americanlivewire.com\/activists-clash-with-police-2013-10\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 Animal rights activist Saturday clashed with police in front of a laboratory in southeastern Brazil that used dogs for drug tests. 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