's police dogs may soon be all bark and no bite if a bill banning them from biting suspects is passed into law.In a move that has outraged police officers, the proposal claims ‘K-9’ dogs are ‘racist’ because the majority of suspects who are bitten are black. And supporters of the bill say the dogs ‘trigger’ black Americans because the animals were used in the days of slavery to hunt down runaway slaves.Assemblyman Corey Jackson, who authored the bill, said: ‘This aims to end a deeply racialised and harmful practice that has been a mainstay in America’s history of racial bias and violence against black Americans and people of colour. The use of police canines has inflicted brutal violence and lifelong trauma on black Americans.’
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