Responding to calls from neighbors, Oakland police raided a warehouse last winter where dozens of men had gathered.
Inside the Sanchez Ironworks in an industrial neighborhood of East Oakland, officers found about 100 people – including four children – watching and gambling on cockfighting. Evidence photos from the raid show a disturbing scene: piles of dead and maimed birds, bet money, animal steroids, pools of blood on the floor and more splattered on the clothes of the birds’ handlers.