Clutch time: Canadian and US World Cup mascots feature in Peruvian drugs raid

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Lima police officers dressed as Clutch the Bald Eagle and Maple the Moose, the US and Canadian mascots for this year's World Cup, to conduct a drug raid on a suspect in Peru. The unconventional disguises, which left out Zayu the Jaguar (the third official mascot), represent an unexpected moment of cooperation between the two North American rivals, whose relations have grown tense in recent years amid trade threats from the Trump administration.