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October 20, 2023
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Amherst, Mass. – PETA is providing a praise of as much as $5,000 for info resulting in the arrest and conviction of the vandal who used a razor blade to slash up and wreck the crowd’s show on the College of Massachusetts–Amherst (UMass). Footage of the vandalism are right here.
PETA introduced the showcase—“With out Consent,” which examines the historical past of experiments on animals from the Nineteen Twenties via these days—to UMass as a part of its marketing campaign in opposition to Agnès Lacreuse’s menopause experiments on marmosets.
The vandal attacked the show round 3:30 p.m. ET these days. As PETA reported to police, a tender guy in his past due teenagers or early twenties used to be noticed fleeing the scene; PETA’s witness describes him as white, roughly 6 toes tall, with shaggy brown hair, and dressed in a plaid flannel jacket. Police are in search of the culprit and checking within sight CCTV cameras for photos of the crime.
“A violent guy can have vandalized PETA’s show, however we’ll nonetheless be at UMass subsequent week to talk up in behalf of the tiny marmosets who’re mutilated and killed in Agnès Lacreuse’s laboratory,” says PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “PETA urges everybody to be at the alert for a tender guy on campus with a pointy object, as different scholars could also be in peril. We recommend that police get started with employees in Lacreuse’s laboratory.”