The state’s top cop showed some pluck responding to a reporter’s query.
Florida’s Attorney General found the lighter side of a brutal practice during a recent press conference about undocumented immigrants.
Asked about a cockfighting ring involving illegal immigrants that predecessor Ashley Moody had apparently been looking into, Attorney General James Uthmeier said he was in “month 3 on the job” and would have to “look into the case.”
“I don’t like the idea of cockfighting in the state,” Uthmeier said. “Especially with egg prices today, I don’t think we need to be supporting that type of activity.”
For what it’s worth, egg prices are reportedly down around 60% since Donald Trump became President.
It’s unclear which cockfighting ring the reporter referred to, but there have been a number of such criminal enterprises broken up in recent years.
Last year in Lake County, an alleged ring was broken up involving dozens of roosters and a scoreboard.
More recently in Miami-Dade, a machete fight led to yet another cockfighting operation getting law enforcement attention.
The state’s Animal Fighting Act regards cockfighting as a serious matter, a felony of the third degree.
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