Weed war: Raids on licensed farms and dog shooting spark outrage
Video of a police raid on a Northern California cannabis farm earlier this month has set off outrage, in part because the 36-second clip shows an officer fatally shooting a grower's dog.
That the target of the armed strike held a state cannabis license was equally upsetting for many growers in the region.
Three other cannabis farms for which a Trinity County magistrate in late April approved sheriff's raids also were licensed by the state.
What the targeted farms allegedly lacked were Trinity County permits.
"That is insane," said Matthew Hawkins, upon learning from The Times that his state-licensed McAlexander Ranch had been on the raid list but for unexplained reasons was not served.
"It seems like they're going after people with state licenses," he said. "It's like a bomb going off
