Five Arrests After Pit Bull Attack-Cop Shooting

2009_07_isaahouse.jpg After a woman set a pit bull on cops, prompting them to fatally shoot the dog in an Upper East Side public housing building on Tuesday night, there are some inevitable arrests: NY1 reports that the dog's owner, Milagros Martinez, and five others were arrested on "charges of possession of a controlled substance after police said they found crack residue in a crack pipe." Martinez was also previously evicted; according to the Daily News, she was "booted from her First Ave. apartment in April for not paying rent - but a judge let her back in." Apparently she was evicted because her husband was arrested "in a kiddie-toy drug bust," but was allowed back after paying back rent; Mayor Bloomberg said, "We had disagreed violently with the judge that let these people go back into their apartment." The News also spoke to the neighbor who claims she called 911 on Tuesday because she was "sick of the drugs" in the apartment; the woman felt bad about the dog's death, "I cried. But I feel the dog's probably in a better place than being with them."

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bobby..Judge Sotomayor ring a bell probbaly her How many hispanics judges can there be

From the Daily News:

Judge Jean Schneider let Martinez, who has a prior drug conviction, stay after she paid back rent, sources said.

Not sure if it's the racism or the laziness of the first 3 comments that bother me more.

It could've been just plain old stupidity.

I'm choosing all three and adding douchbaggery.

god forbid if you make a joke about hispnics or blacks you liberal morons start crying...Kill Kill Whitey...feel better

Your sense of humor is too subtle for me.


Wait, Mayor Bloomberg, what did you mean by "we disagree violently"? I'm assuming you mean that the NYPD was somehow involved?

Once again, why do we have housing projects? Are we masochists or what?

A little bit of history.
Before housing projects, most working people lived in tenements. They were often rat infested, dark walk-ups without private facilities (like bathrooms, you had go to common bathroom in the hallway). New housing projects with new appliances seemed like paradise.
But, don't worry. The time for housing projects has passed. Government money is set aside to tear the projects down and maybe build decentralized housing to avoid projects' pathology.

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