Article: Cops blame 'Fahrenheit' fallout in dog walker's arrest

Some conservatives are calling Michael Moore's anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" a load of crap.

But Chicago Police say it's crap -- dog poop, to be specific -- that enlightened them about the passions stirred by the movie.

Saturday night, a 64-year-old man was walking his Doberman through a South Side neighborhood where residents have been complaining about dog owners not cleaning up after pets.

Patrol officers stopped the man -- community activist Sokoni Karanja, a onetime recipient of a prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship -- to see if the dog, which was on a leash but without tags, had a license, police said.

But, officials said, Karanja became agitated and threatened to sic the ...

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