Illegal Cockfighting Is Apparently A Thing In Detroit After A Huge Raid Broke Up A Cockfighting Ring There Over The Weekend
(Source)- Authorities raided a building in southwest Detroit on Saturday as part of an investigation into cockfighting and illegal gambling. There were 86 people inside the abandoned building in the 1200 block of Green, near Springwells and I-75, when multiple agencies executed a search warrant around 1 p.m, said Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We made approximately 50 administrative arrests for individuals who were in violation of immigration law,” he said. “And those individuals will be detained in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”
About 140 federal, state and local law enforcement officials descended on the area as part of the ongoing criminal investigation that has spanned several months, Walls said. When officials arrived, there were more than 100 birds at the location. Authorities made one criminal arrest, Walls said, adding the search warrant remains under seal. Charges were pending Sunday morning. The raid was led by Homeland Security Investigations, which is a part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some of the other agencies involved include U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Trenton and Detroit police departments.
I have to admit that I did NOT see a story about a cockfighting ring in Detroit being broken up making its way onto the internet. Dog fighting? Maybe. Unlicensed human fighting? For sure. But cockfighting and the Motor City don’t exactly go together like lamb and tuna fish. And while we are talking about it, why the fuck are the feds and the local Detroit police spending their time and tax dollars on breaking up cockfights? I’m pretty sure they have bigger fish to fry up there in Detroit. The murder rate could always stand to be moved a tick in the right direction. I haven’t heard of any frambulances being invented. And I haven’t seen any articles saying that Detroit isn’t the most depressing place live in the U.S. So lets focus on that stuff before we start breaking down the doors of cockfights.
Yeah chickens pecking each others’ faces off and clawing each other to death could be seen as animal cruelty. But those eggs you ate for breakfast and the chicken cutlets you are going to eat for dinner probably didn’t come from the happiest chickens on the planet. And I watched Donnie’s trips to the cockfights in the Philippines. They looked like an absolute BLAST. And that’s in some poor ass third world country. Imagine what it would look like in the U.S. of A. Or whatever you consider Detroit. You can’t tell me this cockfight has any less pageantry than a Conor McGregor fight.
And now that the world knows of these suped up Brahma chickens, we could have a heavyweight division that would definitely be more entertaining than the heavyweight boxing division. I would pay good money to watch this big motherfucker brawl on Pay-Per-View.
Shit while we are at it, couldn’t we have all of the “kinda harmless” illegal stuff in Detroit? Like Vegas has gambling and hookers. That’s their corner and I won’t impede on it. Plus nobody is going to choose Detroit over Vegas. But maybe Detroit could be the Hamsterdam for cockfighting and stuff of that nature. Decriminalize drinking and smoking weed on the street as well and then we just watch the money flow in that can fix the real problems of Detroit. And since it’s right on the Canadian border, we can lure all of their degenerates for a night of fun the same way they lure our under-21 college students to the bars. Or we can continue to breakup the “thriving” underground cockfighting rings of Detroit as the city continues to go to shit.
Or this was all done by the ICE as a way to find illegal immigrants, in which case my proposal still stands for a pseudo-lawless city, but swap out cockfighting for another taboo vice of humanity.