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Friday, June 6, 2008
Cincinnati Police Kill Two Pit Bulls in Separate Shootings in Same Day
 Victim Now Believes in Pit Bull Ban
Cincinnati, OH - Meredith Green usually took every measure to avoid going by the house with barking pit bulls inside. But recently, while walking home with her dog and a friend in the rain, She took the shorter route. It was a decision that landed Green and her Sheltie mix named Airy in the hospital and one of two police shootings of pit bulls in Cincinnati on the same day.
Video: Witnesses Recount Dog Attack
As you watch the video please understand the number of first responders on the scene. In one screenshot we caught 10 uniformed bodies and 4 police vehicles. The Cincinnati police, the Cincinnati SCPA and upset witnesses abound, all against the backdrop yellow crime scene ropes. One cannot watch this video and deny the deadly seriousness of a pit bull attack.
Who pays for these first responders? The citizens of Cincinnati, in this instance. As Green neared the Hamilton Avenue home, the pit bulls inside immediately began barking. Before she knew it, the dogs barreled through the screen door and headed straight for Airy. She said she had Airy in her arms and one pit bull was biting her leg and the other was grabbing at her ear and neck. She said she knew right away, "There was nothing that was gonna stop those dogs."
Joyce Lovette, James Robinson, and two others jumped in, trying to fight off the pit bulls. "We were screaming for help and (another female) laid on top of one of the (pit bull) dogs until police got here. It was terrible," Lovette said. Robinson was exiting a drive-through when he saw the two pit bulls attack the little dog and its owner. He jumped out of his car, grabbed a pipe and began beating the dog.
"He hit him. Bam. I'm like, 'No, crack him' and when he hit him, he just dropped like boom. He knocked him out," said a witness. A Cincinnati police officer finished off the pit bull with a shotgun blast. Airy was taken to a pet hospital. It is unclear if she will fully recover. The owner of the pit bulls, Dasha White, 29, was cited for owning illegal dogs -- the City of Cincinnati bans pit bull type dogs. Before Green was taken to the hospital to treat her bite wounds, she comments on Cincinat's pit bull ban, now from the perspective of being a victim."I haven't really been an advocate of the pit bull ordinance until now. I used to feel badly for the dogs but I can see now that a pit bull is a huge responsibility and there's too much danger. Nothing was gonna stop those dogs. Nothing." DogsBite.org hopes readers do not have to undergo being a victim to understand why we need to regulate these dogs.
Related articles:
05/23/08: Pit Bull Owner Sets Dogs Loose After Attack
05/22/08: Ohio Cities Cracking Down on Pit Bulls (Big Time)
04/07/08: Banned Pit Bull Breaks Chain, Attacks ChildrenLabels: pit bull ban
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Rapidly approaching 150 Pit bulls shot by US Law Enforcement so far in 2008...The Media is AWOL on the issue.
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6/06/2008 11:05 PM | Flag as abusive
If there is a good side of pit bull attacks, it's that people become educated about them, and then they realize reguations are needed. I've heard of people who are against BSL for that very reason - so that more attacks continue and the dogs will be outright banned instead of just regulated.
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6/07/2008 1:03 PM | Flag as abusive
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