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Article: Cops blame 'Fahrenheit' fallout in dog walker's arrest
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 28, 2004
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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 ...