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Title: Owner of 3 Pit Bulls That Mauled 9-Year-Old Girl to Death Charged with Murder
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LawAndCrime
URL Source: https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/owner ... -to-death-charged-with-murder/
Published: Aug 22, 2019
Author: Matt Clibanoff
Post Date: 2019-08-27 01:48:49 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 13018
Comments: 88
According to the victim’s family, Emma Hernandez, 9, was riding her bike on Monday when dogs attacked her in an alley around 4 p.m. Family members said that she often rode her bike in the area around Central Avenue and Smart Street and was probably trying to use a nearby alley to turn around. Among the various neighbors who came out to help Hernandez was Deborah Gordon, a woman who lives down the block. She reportedly tried to perform CPR and was shocked by what happened. “You’re talking about a 9-year-old girl who was just out there playing, and now she’s not here,” she told Fox 6 Now. To make matters worse, one of the people who ran towards the attack was Hernandez’s 12-year-old brother. While most of Hernandez’s immediate family wanted privacy, they did say that the dogs often roamed around the streets of their neighborhood; Hernandez’s father said he had an argument with the dog owner about it within the past week. During the attack, neighbors shot one of the pit bulls. Following the attack, the dogs were taken by Detroit Animal Care and Control. “Due to the severity of this case, it is very likely that the dogs will be euthanized,” officials said in a statement. Cleveland has reportedly been charged with having a dangerous animal, causing death, involuntary manslaughter, and second-degree murder. “It shouldn’t have happened,” said Claudia Stapleton, Hernandez’s aunt. “They should have been more careful with their dogs. This is her neighborhood. She should be able to be free and do what every kid does. Walk around, ride their bikes, they shouldn’t be afraid in their own neighborhood. It’s very devastating.” Cleveland is currently being held with a $2 million bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 30 for a probable cause conference. His preliminary examination is set for Sept. 6, ClickonDetroit reported. Poster Comment: I am always happy to see pitbull owners prosecuted. I have a friend who owns one, unhappy last year that the city fined him for letting it escape and run wild, forced him to build a pen. I told him that I like seeing pitbull owners prosecuted because they are an inherently dangerous and unstable breed. We aren't as close now for some reason. Hell, he just leaves it in the crappy pen they made him build, neglected and living a useless unhappy life. He doesn't even care about that dog.
Pierre Cleveland, 33, the owner of the three pit bulls that mauled a 9-year-old Detroit girl to death, has been charged with murder. 
“I knew the dogs were there. I knew the neighbor,” Armando Hernandez said. “We had an argument about it just last week and he just didn’t take care of his dogs properly. He could have prevented this.”
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#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
Oh Well …
If a pitbull is mauling your grandchild to death right in front of you, I recommend you just shoot it and not wait for the cops to shop up 30-40 minutes later. Strange how you tried to take this in the direction of police posts in general. You're trying to dragging the cops into a non-cop story. Hammer, nail. I did like how they had a mug shot of him first and then the second one showing him weeping in shame. Gee, maybe he should have locked up his dogs before they killed an innocent little girl. Hence, the second photo.
“The Lord works in mysterious ways.” “Yep.” He sure does …
#5. To: Gatlin, sneakypete (#3)
Another movie I never managed to sit through. I've seen some clips from it though. Another one I never saw was Animal House. Yet I always thought Dan Akroyd was the most talented SNL performer by far. A total ham and with some acting talent. It's funny though. I've seen a lot of movies. But some really big hit movies make me lose interest early on and I just stop paying attention to them. Some other big hits, I don't even bother with because I dislike something about the trailers, usually because they're so over the top that I know the movie can't possibly live up to the marketing hype. It's rare if I can predict whether I will or won't sit through a movie. Sequels are an exception. If I really like the first movie in a series like LOTR, then I will watch the sequel(s). But I barely made it through the last few Star Wars sequels because the stories are lousy and the acting lame and the racial checkoffs and the PC elements are almost embarrassingly clumsy and hamhanded. And the endings are teed up to get you to watch Star Wars XXXVIII. It's just tiresome. The Terminator sequels are a bit of a mixed bag but I watched them through to find out the backstory (even if time travel movies are the bottom of the barrel among sci-fi movies). There is a Hollywood saying that no sequel can ever be as good as the original. Terminator 2 was one of the few exceptions to this rule; T2 was much better in action, plot, special effects, music, just across the board. T1 looks kind of sad and cheap compared to T2. But then T3 sucked, T4 with Christian Bale was pretty good and there was a T5 but all I remember is some nonsense about Arnold jumping out of a plane to land on another plane or some crap like that. I recall watching it to the end and thinking it was a waste of time and contributed little to the film series; a lot of people felt the same way about T3 but the two lead actors were very weak in that one. I watched the original Rocky movie but meandered through the sequels, making it to the end of Rocky 2 (it was okay) but had trouble finishing Rocky 3. I think they made at least two more that I didn't see at all, in part because my opinion of the sport of boxing nosedived completely. I did stop going to the theaters around the time that cellphones got popular but I've noticed that I really start to devalue any public event with people interacting with their smartphone or their phones are making tweety noises or anything else. I never minded a baby crying at a movie or public venue because I think young parents need a chance to get the hell out of the house so that I will cheerfully put up with. I don't like talkers but don't mind people just whispering at a movie. I notice I get annoyed with smartphones increasingly. Why can't those people just stay home and cuddle with their gadgets in private instead of involving everyone else in their little habit? I even dislike the glow of their screens in a darkened theater, dislike seeing them pull them out and punch away on them, etc. It devalues the entire experience. The theaters should throw anyone out who pulls out a phone inside a dark theater; they can go to the lobby if their muted phone rings and they just have to answer it. This is actually a major problem for theaters as more and more people hate the experience of trying to watch a movie while the gadgets are going off and glowing in the dark around them. It's very distracting. It's kind of odd that Hollyweird never gives out much info on this kind of viewership, intermittent viewers like me, people sick of the Smartphone Addicts in the theaters, etc. Their marketing teams have to know this stuff but they never talk about it in public. It's interesting though that most people seem to believe that everyone has seen every hit movie when that's clearly not the case. However, the moviegoers who are big film fans are a small minority, most often young couples who are dating and make regular movie nights. Hit movies are never as pervasive as people seem to assume they are. If you think this post was long, don't even ask how much I hate those goddamned Marvel superhero movies. I'd rather have dentistry without sedation than try to sit through any more of those abortions.
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Sigh … During the attack, neighbors shot one of the pit bulls.
If only some lowly public servant police officer had been there to shoot all of these dogs and prevent this tragic death … There were 36 U.S. dog bite-related fatalities occurred in 2018. Pit bulls contributed to 72% (26) of these deaths.”
Poster [Tooconservative] Comment: I am always happy to see pitbull owners prosecuted.
I hsve absolutely no problem when police officers shoot them – While some folks do …
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I hsve absolutely no problem when police officers shoot them – While some folks do …
#3. To: Tooconservative (#2)
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