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HSUS Investigation Leads to Fifty Arrests in Cockfight Raid WellBeing International WBI Studies Repository 6-1978 HSUS Investigation Leads to Fifty Arrests in Cockfight Raid Follow this and additional works at: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/cu_reps Part of the Animal Studies Commons, Other Anthropology Commons, and the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons Recommended Citation "HSUS Investigation Leads to Fifty Arrests in Cockfight Raid" (1978). Close Up Reports. 8. https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/cu_reps/8 This material is brought to you for free and open access by WellBeing International. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of the WBI Studies Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HumaneThe Sg~l~!Y CLOSE- UP REPORT HSUS INVESTIGATION LEADS TO FIFTY ARRESTS IN COCKFIGHT RAID to breeding, raising, conditioning and tally wounded. The average life span of a Participants Fined equipping their gamecocks, and will travel gamecock is short; a bird that makes it great distances to fight them. through even six fights alive is considered Up to $500 In truth, these birds are bred and raised exceptional. only to cut and slash one another to death Centuries of breeding for maximum ag­ Fifty people have been arrested and to provide a bloody spectacle for a cheering gressiveness has accentuated this quality in found guilty under California cruelty crowd. The affection cockers claim for gamecocks. They are man-made killers, statutes as spectators or participants at a their "pets" is reserved for the winners. and man is to blame for carefully breeding cockfight as a result of an undercover in­ Losers are objects for contempt and in the extreme aggressiveness and instinct to vestigation conducted by The Humane disgust. Worst of all is the occasional fight that will eventually lead them to a Society of the United States. rooster that would rather run than fight. bloody and painful death. Fifteen of those arrested pled guilty to This is humiliating for its handler, and Cockers frequently try to justify their charges of participating in the event. They usually earns the rooster a speedy death at sport by saying the birds are "natural ~ceived fines ranging from $95 to $515, the the hands of its supposedly loving owner. fighters," ignoring the fact that it is man's 1naximum possible under the law. The rest A cockfight may last up to twenty meddling with nature that has made them were given citations as spectators at the minutes, and by the end of it at least one, this way. • fight, and were fined from $95 to $350. and sometimes both, birds are dead or mor- The gamecock's method of fighting is to Those arrested included several juveniles, Continued on page 3 most of whom were brought to the cockfight by their parents. Because cockfighting is illegal in Califor­ nia, cockfights are held in the strictest secrecy. An HSUS undercover informant, posing as a cockfighting enthusiast, manag­ ed to win the confidence of some members of the cockfighting fraternity near Sacramento, California. After several months of undercover work, he was finally invited to a major Derby meet on Sunday, April 23rd. He immediately began ar­ rangements to have the fight raided and participants arrested. Three members of the HSUS Investigations Department, Frantz Dantzler, Phil Steward, and Marc Paulhus, flew to California to set up the raid. (The full story of the investigations and police work behind the raid is on page 2 of this report.) Cruelty Disguised as Sport Cockfighting has a large, mostly underground following in the United States. Cockers, as lovers of this "sport" call themselves, claim great affection for One of the live game cocks confiscated in the cockfight raid. His comb has been ~t of! in their gallant fighting roosters. They are preparation for the fight, so it cannot be a target for the other rooster. Forty-four live brrds willing to pour large amounts of money in- were found in carrying cases after the raid. Steward, Paulhus, and our undercover handlers showed little concern about being fly into the air and come down on its oppo­ tween unproven cocks. agent. Only high level officials knew caught. They talked about minor citations nent with the spurs, or claws, on the backs A table with a set of scales served as a the details of the raid. This was and small fines. of its legs. Here again cockers have seen fit check-in point before the fights. Each cock agreed to early in the investiga­ Our investigator was one of the first peo­ t0 improve on nature by equipping their was carefully weighed and matched with tion to insure against possible ple arrested. He was then led to a vantage ls with one to three inch steel gaffs. another cock as close to its weight as possi­ "leaks." point where he proceeded to tell the ar­ 1 nese long, curved bayonets are attached ble. For a Derby event, the fighting cocks A plan had been established resting officer who were the handlers and over the cock's own trimmed spurs with must weigh within two ounces of each for the raid. HSUS Investiga­ who were the spectators. He later confirm­ tape or dental floss. A good pair of gaffs other. tors Dantzler, Steward, and ed these identifications using mug shots at may cost as much as $60, but the price is Off to one side was a beer keg and hot Paulhus were to follow the the Sheriff's office. worth it to the cocker because they enable dog stand, evidence that these fights were cockers and pinpoint the Once the arrests were made, HSUS In­ his rooster to pierce the brain or tear open supposed to be part of a pleasant after­ actual site. Using walkie­ vestigators Dantzler, Steward, and Paulhus the breast of its opponent in one strike. noon's entertainment. talkies, headlight signals, began the tedious process of photographing The gamecocks also suffer as their combs Men were charged a five dollar admission and roadside telephone booths, and documenting the evidence. This includ­ are cut off in a painful operation. This to the event. Women and children got in HSUS Investigators successfully ed live as well as dead gamecocks, gaffs, makes them less prone to certain types of free. Cockers are anxious to insure the con­ trailed the cocker caravan. drugs, and cash. During the raid, mari­ diseases. More important to the cocker is tinuation of their sport, and encourage the THE The cockfight site was in a secluded hilly juana was discovered at the scene. All of that the absence of the comb leaves one less Watching birds die is pleasant entertain­ training of children in the raising and the evidence was logged and transported to target for the opposing cock to seize upon. ment to the cocker, as evidenced by the handling of gamecocks. area near Placerville, California. The cars presence of a refreshment stand. were parked about 500 feet from the pit site the Sheriff's office. Cockfighting enthusiasts see nothing Nine Derby fights and a number of which was a cleared out hollow between wrong or cruel in their activities. To them, transporting and selling of gamecocks for hackfights took place before the police ar­ RAID ... some low hills. a cockfight is an occasion to bring the fami­ breeding purposes. rived. Eleven birds died, and were uncere­ Among the first things our investigator ly, have a picnic, bet a little (or a Jot) of moniously tossed in the bushes. The birds noticed were the horseback riders who he money, and have some fun watching Blood and Money are not required to fight to the death, and a Unlike the crime shows we see on TV, later learned had been hired to scout the chickens die with cut chests, pierced eyes, cocker may remove his fowl from the pit at this case and its culmination, the raid, took hills for police. Our agent continued to play and broken wings in a small, blood­ HSUS' informant watched the California any time and forfeit the match. Most several months to develop. The HSUS his part by betting on fights, adding money spattered ring. Derby meet for two hours before it was cockers prefer to leave their bird in the undercover investigator had to infiltrate the to the purse, and pretending to enjoy the To humanitarians, the cruelty is so ob­ raided. He noted who was a spectator and fight, even if it is obviously unable or un­ ranks of the northern California cockers, events. vious that cockfighting has been made il­ who actually participated in the event. willing to fight back due to its injuries. This become a trusted "buddy," and be invited The actual raid was over in minutes. legal in every state but Arizona, Kansas, What he saw was fairly typical of kind of cruelty is unnecessary even by the to several backyard cockfights before he Thanks to the California Highway Patrol Oklahoma, and New Mexico. When the cockfights. rules of the cocker's own game, but it il­ was allowed to become a spectator at a ma­ helicopter the handlers and spectators who Animal Welfare Act was passed in 1976, The site chosen for the Derby had been lustrates the cocker's apparent delight at jor Derby. attempted to flee were soon rounded up. HSUS urged that cockfighting be outlawed. provided with two canvas-walled pits, the bloodshed and suffering of the roosters. Unlike the TV shows, the drama and the The only one to get away was the property Jbying by cockfighting proponents where the birds would fight. The larger pit Gambling is one of the major attractions danger were very real! In the back of our owner.
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