2026年4月19日 / 美国东部时间上午9:10 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
约1000名动物福利活动者周六试图进入威斯康星州的一家比格犬繁育研究机构，遭到警方驱逐，警方向人群发射橡皮子弹和胡椒喷雾，并逮捕了该团体的领导人。
这是抗议者在两个月内第二次试图从位于布卢芒兹的里奇兰农场（Ridglan Farms）机构带走比格犬，该小镇位于州首府麦迪逊西南约25英里（约40公里）处。
戴恩县警长卡尔文·巴雷特（Kalvin Barrett）在一段视频声明中表示，300至400名抗议者“暴力试图闯入场地”并袭击警员。他说，抗议者无视指定的和平抗议区域，还封锁道路，阻碍应急车辆通行。
“这不是和平抗议，”巴雷特说道。
县警长办公室表示，现场约1000名抗议者中有“相当数量”的人被逮捕，但截至当天下午仍在进行登记，未公布具体人数。
据《威斯康星州日报》报道，抗议者试图冲破包括装满粪便的壕沟、干草捆和带刺铁丝网围栏在内的路障。部分抗议者确实翻越了围栏，但未能进入该机构——这里据估计饲养着2000只比格犬。
“我只感到挫败，”活动人士朱莉·弗热斯基（Julie Vrzeski）在行动开展约三小时后对该报表示，当时尚未成功带走任何狗狗。
抗议者随后从里奇兰农场转移到麦迪逊市中心的监狱外举行抗议。
此次行动由“拯救里奇兰狗狗联盟”组织发起，该团体原本公开计划于周日实施抢狗行动，但提前一天启动了行动。该团体领导人韦恩·徐（Wayne Hsiung）的X账号发布了一张他被逮捕的照片。
县警长办公室表示，一名“鲁莽”驾驶皮卡车撞开该机构正门的人员已被逮捕，“避免了潜在的致命后果”。
据哥伦比亚广播公司麦迪逊分台WISC报道，此次行动发生在3月15日该动物繁育场遭遇闯入事件之后。该机构被指控长期虐待动物，特别是比格犬。县警长办公室此前已就上月的强行闯入事件对63人提起诉讼。
里奇兰农场否认虐待动物，但作为避免因虐待动物指控被起诉的协议的一部分，该场在去年10月同意于7月1日放弃其州级繁育执照。
其官网称，“从未有人提出或证实过里奇兰农场存在动物虐待、残忍对待、疏忽照料的可信证据。”
1,000 animal-rights activists try to storm Wisconsin beagle breeding facility
April 19, 2026 / 9:10 AM EDT / CBS/AP
About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader.
It was the second attempt in as many months by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Madison.
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett, said in a video statement that 300 to 400 protesters were “violently trying to break into the property” and assault officers. He said protesters have ignored designated areas for peaceful protest and blocked roads to prevent emergency vehicles from entering.
“This is not a peaceful protest,” Barrett said.
The sheriff’s department said a “significant” number of people were arrested out of about 1,000 protesters at the site but did not give an exact total as they were still being processed as of the afternoon.
Protesters tried to overcome barricades that included a manure-filled trench, hay bales and a barbed-wire fence. Some protesters did get through the fence but were unable to enter the facility, where an estimated 2,000 beagles are kept, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
“I just feel defeated,” activist Julie Vrzeski told the newspaper about three hours into the operation after no dogs had been successfully seized.
Activists later moved from the Ridglan facility to protest outside the jail in downtown Madison.
The group Coalition to Save the Ridglan Dogs had publicized plans to seize the dogs Sunday but launched its operation a day earlier. The X account of the group’s leader, Wayne Hsiung, posted a picture of him being arrested.
The sheriff’s department said a person who “recklessly” drove a pickup through the front gate of the property was arrested, “preventing a potentially deadly outcome.”
Saturday’s action comes after a March 15 break-in at the animal breeding facility, which has been accused of constant abuse, specifically towards beagles, according to CBS Madison affiliate WISC. The sheriff’s office previously referred charges against 63 people after last month’s forced entry.
Ridglan has denied mistreating animals but agreed in October to give up its state breeding license as of July 1 as part of a deal to avoid prosecution on animal mistreatment charges.
On its website it says “no credible evidence of animal abuse, cruelty, mistreatment or neglect at Ridglan Farms has ever been presented or substantiated.”
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