A 21-year-old Army Reservist and college student was mauled by a police dog early Sunday after police were called to break up a street fight involving a crowd of about three dozen people. London Colvin, 21, who is black, admitted attending a party that turned rowdy but said she wasn’t involved in the fight and was leaving the scene with friends when they were accosted by police. According to witnesses, she on the ground and immobilized by two cops on top of her when the dog attacked her. The police defended their actions, saying they were using the dog for crowd control. Colvin’s injuries took 40 stitches and will require plastic surgery. I assume she’s going to sue the Norfolk police.
Photo: No, that’s not a civil rights marcher attacked by one of Sheriff Bull Connor’s dogs in 1963 (inset); it’s what London Colvin’s leg looked like last Sunday morning. Not much has changed in the South over a half century.
