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Cook County sheriff's police broke up a dogfight taking place in the basement of a house in the 500 block of West 66th St. on Saturday night. The fight was attended by 50 people, including a pregnant woman and a few teenagers. Three men (pictured from left to right: Donaver Jones, Melvin Trent and Timothy Norris) were charged with felony dogfighting. All others were issued misdemeanor tickets for attending a dogfight.
Police swept into the basement about 10 p.m. Saturday night to find a bloodied 10-by-10-foot makeshift ring surrounded by 3-foot-high wooden boards smeared with blood, bites and scratches. The floor of the ring was covered with a red rug that police said was used to disguise blood.Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said it was the first time a dogfight had been broken up in progress. "We were very surprised to walk in to that, in process of it going on, that's somewhat unusual. The whole thing was unsettling, there were little kids, a pregnant woman, guns all over the place." He later added, "What we interrupted Saturday night was both disgusting and disturbing. So many times, we hear about fights after the fact or find the discarded remains of a dog involved in one of these fights." Jones admitted organizing the fight and admitted to having been previously arrested downstate on similar charges.Police found one dog crouching in the corner so badly injured that it had to be carried away on a stretcher, and authorities do not expect it to survive. The other dog was taken to a local shelter.
Officers confiscated a tackle box filled with steroids, amphetamines, syringes and an IV drip, all of which were allegedly used to keep the dogs aggressive and alive. They also found a staple gun used to close the dogs' wounds so they could keep fighting, as well as thick wooden stakes used to drive apart the dogs' jaws after they'd locked down on the other dog.
Sadly, this is far from the first time something like this has happened this year. Many of us here at Chicagoist are dog owners and think someone needs to knock these guys upside their heads and make them watch this video on repeat. [Trib, S-T]
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I don't know who is worse, the sick people who runs these operations or the disgusting people who fork out 5 dollars for this "entertainment." There is something seriously wrong with a culture that considers something like this entertainment.
I'm glad the penalties are so severe for this kind of thing.
Attending, much less organzing, and event like this shows zero empathy for living things.
Hopefully the judge will show as much empathy to them as they did to their dogs.
What's worse is the apologists who insist that this is a natural part of black culture (see events surrounding Michael Vick case).
Reminds me of the scenes in "Amores Perros." If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about. >
Heart-rending.
I am shocked that a priest would be involved with this (the guy in the middle.)
I dunno what the problum is. I like dogfighting. Its cool and a fun way to make a buck. Y'all need to chill.
altino7,
could you please explain exactly what it is you enjoy about dogfighting and why you think it's cool. I'd like to be enlightened on what goes on in the mind of a sociopath.
Ingrid - It's a joke of questionable taste.
"atlno7"
atl - Atlanta, the team for which Michael Vick played (and is still under contract).
no7 - Number 7 - Vick's number with the Falcons.
The guy in the middle looks like he's been crying. Poor guy. He must have someone waiting for him on the inside.
public hangings don't happen anymore, do they?
What's worse is the apologists who insist that this is a natural part of black culture (see events surrounding Michael Vick case).
That's pretty bad indeed, almost as bad as those who make excuses for white goverment elites who also torture, but torture human beings instead.
There is something seriously wrong with a culture that considers something like this entertainment.
And yet Americans as a mass doesn't go tear down the doors of The White House when they find out their leaders are torturing *human beings* as state policy. Maybe there's just something wrong with American culture period.
Not defending these scumbags, just sayin'.
"public hangings don't happen anymore, do they?"
Careful with that "hangings" term. Jesse Jackson has been sitting on his hands since he wanted to cut Obama's nuts out.
Interesting. A Chicagoist commenter finds some way to use a dogfighting story to criticize the Bush administration.
I don't like Bush, but it's liberal goofiness to think that this story simply has anything to do with--or any parallel with--his administration.
Ward,
"Finds some way" in other words commenting on somebody's actual comments complaining about black culture because there are some black people in the world who fight dogs. Meanwhile torture of human beings is sanctioned by your government, yet nobody calls for public hangings etc.
I don't expect any kind of substantial reply from you as usual. You can just do the patented "Ward Up slink away".
I'm sure becasue they are "straight", they will get married one day to "women" and have babies just like themselves
Bringing up human torture is off-base when discussing dogfighting. Regardless, tossing in white goverment elites is ridiculous.
Since my comment was the jumping-off point regarding dogfighting=enemy combatant torture, I should further clarify.
If you recall during the Michael Vick case, there were people saying (IIRC, perhaps even in the comments on this site...) that dogfighting was ingrained into black culture.
I find those who excuse violent behavior nearly as disgusting as those who are violent. That applies whether they inhabit the White House or a house in Englewood.
Navin,
The white government comment is an obvious deflection.
The Black sub-culture in our society that supports this activity needs to stand up and be shamed. No, 'but the white man did this/that/whatever' this time. Be shamed and cease this ugly practice.
We can have a discussion about the Bush Administration and torture on another message board.
As to 'just sayin,' people are up in arms about this b/c by and large they see animals as helpless and innocent, and enemy combatants (assuming they really are...again different discussion), have a hard time appearing innocent and without self-determination. I'd delve into this further, but I think all you wanted to say was that white parts of our gov't (not the black, latino, etc.) are racist.
Actually no gator hater,
I was simply replying to the racist assumption that it's the duty of all blacks to shame individual thugs because that's somehow an indictment on black culture. Of course the reverse isn't true, nobody disparages "white culture" as a whole when somebody white does something stupid. It's bullshit and racist but you knew that, it's why you Ward and Jimbo can't come up with a coherent argument other than what basically translates to: Shut up! Dude's like stupid!
Black people! The readers of Chicagoist demand that you account for these guy's actions!
Morons.
Why is it racist to assume that blacks should shame the individual thugs that practice dog fighting, and that in our society it is an idiosyncrasy of black culture?
If Blacks are shamed by Whites, its racism.
Blacks have been and do indentify their experience with a culture seperate from mainstream America.
And do we see many other instances of dog fighting amoung Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders? No you dont, sounds like its a pretty good idea to have some accountability from within.
And do whites self correct when their own do something stupid? Yes. The civil rights act is one example. Trent Lott and John Rocker are also examples of self (and externally) shamed idiots.
Go look up racism in the dictionary.
I wish I had the link to that graph that correlates the rise in number of pirates to global warming over time to show Navin.
Has anybody made an argument that torture is part of white government elite culture? (whatever that is btw)
Is there some underground Chicagoist culture that tries to outdo whatever poor argument was made the day before?
PS
New Tribune story about dogfighting culture
Ha gator,
I have and there's a picture of your avatar. Seriously? Citation needed that dogfighting's widely accepted by "blacks" Not forthcoming I imagine. Furthermore I'm not sure what your examples have to do with dogfighting. "self correcting" what a laughable idea...
Either way, welcome to Chicago, the weather's worse here than in Florida. We'll have to go check out a cockfight.
Navin,
Now you are putting words in my mouth.
'specific to' and 'widely accepted' are much different.
My examples pertain to a hope that a (self-identified)sub-culture of American Society accepts self-criticism on an issue the rest of society finds unacceptable. In this case dogfighting.
Self correcting. Laughable? uh, ha ha. So anyway, this would be people within a group correcting and shaming the behavior of those within the same group so as to change said behavior...My examples speak for themselves, I'd love to see in dogfighting. Ha ha.
So you looked up racism in the dictionary and saw Chief Osceola? Damn Florida alums!...it was supposed to be Tebow!
Cockfight? Aren't we a ways from Tulsa?
Unless you meant meet me at the Center on Halsted?
Cant argue with the weather comment.
People who easily accept the commercialization of dogs tearing themselves apart, who know it's going on in the neighborhood and do absolutely nothing to stop it - are cowards.