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VA: Black Man with a Gun Saves White Woman during Pit Bull Attack
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| 17 August, 2018
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 08/17/2018 5:16:40 AM PDT by 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 didnt 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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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; bellcurve; blackman; pitbull; selfdefense
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To: familyop
Thanks for that correction!
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posted on
08/17/2018 5:44:13 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
“The police did not take Jarrett’s legally owned Ruger .45.”
Well, that’s mighty white of them.
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posted on
08/17/2018 5:58:55 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: marktwain
“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.
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posted on
08/17/2018 6:03:31 AM PDT
by
lgjhn23
(It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
To: marktwain
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posted on
08/17/2018 6:06:51 AM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: marktwain
The female vic has a 5 MO baby and has multiple pit bulls in her home? Whoakaaaay....
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posted on
08/17/2018 6:08:11 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: marktwain
When you don’t have the far left driving wedges between people this is what you get: One human helping another.
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posted on
08/17/2018 6:13:48 AM PDT
by
beef
To: beef; All
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.
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posted on
08/17/2018 6:20:50 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
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.
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posted on
08/17/2018 6:35:01 AM PDT
by
lurk
To: marktwain
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.
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posted on
08/17/2018 6:56:26 AM PDT
by
Durbin
To: Durbin
Young did now own the dog.
Young is the neighbor who came to the rescue.
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posted on
08/17/2018 7:23:12 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
did now should be did not
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posted on
08/17/2018 7:23:50 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: Durbin
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.
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posted on
08/17/2018 7:27:37 AM PDT
by
Boomer
(Beware The Obsessed Leftist Pit Bull Haters on FR.)
To: Boomer
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posted on
08/17/2018 7:50:59 AM PDT
by
Boomer
(Beware The Obsessed Leftist Pit Bull Haters on FR.)
To: SJSAMPLE
If it was a black man with the pitbull instead of a gun, you can damn well bet wed 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.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:22:20 AM PDT
by
Lonely Bull
("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
To: Boomer
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?
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:52:19 AM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: marktwain
Onoz! This is going to play hell with the talking points. Pig Boy and Bloomturd deeply saddened.
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:06:11 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: familyop
Cite the owner. It is a weaponized dog and it went off.
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:06:56 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
Cite the owner. It is a weaponized dog and it went off.
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:09:01 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: TalonDJ
Thanks for addressing the above,
“Pitties”
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:19:28 AM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
To: marktwain
"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...
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posted on
08/17/2018 12:58:43 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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