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Crime & Safety

Moose's Owner Attacked Again By Man Who Killed Her Dog, She Says

"No one should have to run from their attacker for a second time* while waiting for police to arrive," Jessica Chrustic said.

I'd be ticked too if somebody got close enough to my dog to whomp him with a branch that left him whimpering.  But the case of the mentally ill homeless man "killing" a dog in NYC?  This is why the media is contributing to the idea that there's a huge crime wave in our country...

She took her dog to the vet.  He didn't diagnose the internal injuries. The dog died days later.

Again, I feel for the lady.  And the dog. But... the "killer" didn't pull out a knife and slice the dog up, or even beat it with a baseball bat into mush.  He hit the dog with a stick, after a confrontation.  To outside ears, it sounds much like the two professionals calling the police on each other over a dog in Central Park back in our better days...  Finally, the courts helped those two work it out.

Here, nobody in the press will rest until the likely mentally ill homeless man is charged with dog killing.  OK now, prove it up.  Bring on the veterinarian medical witnesses, the two eyewitnesses -- he and she, and then do the Judge Judy justice. (= calculate the loss of property. Sadly, a dog is only worth its property value. Hope she had an expensive breed (?) or the civil action likely won't pay off for her.)

If the man is convicted of dog assault, what should society do with him? Where should he go? What does "success" in the end look like?  The dead dog isn't coming back, friends.  And sadly, getting one bad man off the streets doesn't solve the problem for the next person confronting such a situation.  What do we learn from these conflicts, except just to retreat and keep our own heads down always?  Stop taking in dogs. 

And don't stalk people physically in person.  Even/especially the homeless. That's not cool.

Chrustic followed the man she feared Friday morning because, she said, police from the beleaguered 78th Precinct told her earlier this month that's what she'd need to do to keep the case active.

The advice left Chrustic "aghast," she said, but when a woman who had helped Chrustic during the original attack called to say she'd seen the man, the desperate former dog owner decided to follow it.Chrustic ran to the park as both women called 911, she said. On her way, Chrustic said she asked for help from officers in a nearby police car, but the officers effectively "shooed" her off, she told Patch. 

Don't court confrontation then cry when the consequences turn on you.  Ask George Zimmerman, remember him? The white hispanic?