VA: Black Man with a Gun Saves White Woman during Pit Bull Attack

Gun Watch ^ | 17 August, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

On 6 August, 2018, Monday afternoon in Suffolk, VA. , a pit bull escaped from its owner. Michaela Clark and Jarret Young, neighbors, attempted to put the dog in a choker collar. The dog attacked Clark, a 20 year old mother.  Young owns a Ruger .45, probably a P345, from the photograph. From wavy.com:

Young, an Army veteran, says he couldn't shoot the dog at first because it was too close to Clark. When she moved her body, he says he found an open shot.

"I took the shot. The dog stopped biting. It froze and fell over," said Young. “I was just trying to make sure she didn’t die because she had a five month old baby in the house. I did what anybody would have did -- shot it.”

Clark escaped with about a dozen bite marks and puncture wounds on her back, arm and hand. She needed stitches and is now in a cast.

The incident is still under investigation. It is unclear if the dog's owner will be cited.

This situation illustrates the racial harmony that exists in many neighborhoods. The young mother, Michaela Clark, is white. The armed defender, Jarett Young, is black.

Young says he just did what anyone else would do. It is the classic line. But not everyone else is on the scene, armed, and capable of decisive action. It probably helped that Jarrett Young is an army veteran.

 The police did not take Jarrett's legally owned Ruger .45. He still had it when the reporter interviewed him for the story.

According to those who claim racism is rampant, this sort of situation is not supposed to happen.

There is another interesting angle to the story. Michaela Young owns pit bulls herself, and loves them. She says she does not blame the dog.

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[marktwain]

Thanks for that correction!

[Bonemaker]

“The police did not take Jarrett’s legally owned Ruger .45.”

Well, that’s mighty white of them.

[lgjhn23]

“I took the shot. The dog stopped biting. It froze and fell over,”

Yep. A .45 round will tend to do that to most anything.

[FLT-bird]

Nice shootin’ soldier.

[mewzilla]

The female vic has a 5 MO baby and has multiple pit bulls in her home? Whoakaaaay....

[beef]

When you don’t have the far left driving wedges between people this is what you get: One human helping another.

[marktwain]

When you don’t have the far left driving wedges between people this is what you get: One human helping another.

Yes. And when the police respect the Constitutional rights of people, the people respect the police back.

It wasn't that long ago that the black soldier would have had his pistol confiscated and be facing charges for discharging a firearm inside city limits, or disturbing the peace for openly carrying a pistol in public.

We have come a long way in the last 25 years.

[lurk]

We should cleanse the narrative.

A dog attacked an American woman. An American man, her neighbor, shot the dog. The woman was treated in an American hospital. Police are talking to the American owner of the dog.

[Durbin]

So this Young guy who owns the dog is credited with saving a woman from his dog. Is anyone gonna question why the dog was like that in the first place? Because pitbulls aren’t just born mean and don’t just start randomly attacking people. They have to be taught that stuff.

[marktwain]

Young did now own the dog.

Young is the neighbor who came to the rescue.

[marktwain]

did now

should be did not

[Boomer]

Is anyone gonna question why the dog was like that in the first place?

You won't find any of the Pittie haters questioning anything. They know everything about everything when it comes to Pitties. You would have better luck talking to a wall asking questions about what made this dog go after this particular woman like that. They never ask the important questions because they don't want to know. They are only interested in the act itself which is usually the least interesting part. None of these articles ever ask that important question because it doesn't fit the narrative they wish to portray; that ALL Pitties are bad dogs. Pure Fake News of course but they don't care; they are on a cult-driven obsessed mission to denigrate all Pitties. See tagline.

[Boomer]

This is the kind of story we should be seeing. Dogs are so much better, on average, than the average person.

Heartless woman dumps a small dog in a trash can after it starts following her along the street

Notice in the comments how most people want to see people like this executed. I concur. The planet would indeed be a better place without such human filth.

[Lonely Bull]

If it was a black man with the pitbull instead of a gun, you can damn well bet we’d be talking about it.

I can often guess the races involved in a thread before I open it--by seeing how many posts there are.

[TalonDJ]

I don’t trust pits so there for I am leftist? Logic much?

I don’t trust rattlers either. Don’t hate them but I don’t want them around my kids. That must make me a budist. Oh and I don’t trust black widow spiders around my family either. I guess that makes me flat-earther.

All that makes as much sense as your tag line.

Is it really that hard to believe the people don’t trust an animal that was specifically bred for mindless aggressiveness? Is that really so hard to understand?

[Still Thinking]

Onoz! This is going to play hell with the talking points. Pig Boy and Bloomturd deeply saddened.

[Clutch Martin]

Cite the owner. It is a weaponized dog and it went off.

[Clutch Martin]

Cite the owner. It is a weaponized dog and it went off.

[Big Red Badger]

Thanks for addressing the above,
“Pitties”

[Windflier]

"Michaela Young owns pit bulls herself, and loves them. She says she does not blame the dog."

And she has a five month old baby at home.

Aye, aye, aye...