"Woman tries to kill immigrant's dog. What has happened to us?"

[JHan]

Raffa Delon's 12-year-old Yorkie, Cody, is a friendly little guy.

He likes to approach strangers on his walks with his master, then roll over on his back for a belly rub.

But on the evening of March 14, when he approached a woman who was standing alone near the stream in Sugar House Park, the 3-pound Yorkshire terrier was kicked into the swift-moving water.

"Why did you do that?" asked a shocked Delon.

"You shouldn't be here," the woman screamed. "Go back to Mexico."

Delon, a native of Venezuela who has lived in Utah for 25 years and has never been to Mexico, then noticed the dog had not resurfaced. He jumped into the water, which was littered with tree limbs and leaves, and began feeling around for his pet.

Luckily, Cody's harness had latched onto a tree branch, preventing him from going downstream, and Delon finally felt the dog's little body in the water. He pulled him to shore and began squeezing his stomach to force the water out while the woman continued to scream, "We're going to build a wall and you're going to pay for it."

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5090569-155/rolly-woman-tries-to-kill-immigrants

Sigh.

[raccoon]

1. To her, Raffa Delon is one of the Untermenschen.

Untermensch (German pronunciation: [ˈʔʊntɐˌmɛnʃ], underman, sub-man, subhuman; plural: Untermenschen) is a term that became infamous when the Nazis used it to describe non-Aryan "inferior people"

A fitting word to know for these times in the USA.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Muslims and Mexicans, same playbook today.

But slowly at first, the demographics are shifting, and they hit a critical point in another generation, it will all change.
I won't be around to see it for a few reasons, but am happy knowing it cannot be stopped.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I'd cut a you know what

If she did that to my Uncle Ruckus. At minimum she wouldn't have teeth.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[irisblue]

16. I'd help you

[mountain grammy]

18. and she'd deserve it..

glad he decided to save his dog, which is what I would do.. but I'd be looking for that woman and plaster her picture and this story everywhere..

I can't even think anymore, it's too damn depressing.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I swear to God, if I ever witness something like that, I'll kick

the dumbass woman in the river myself. I'm a 69 yr. Old woman, but I'd do it!

[Initech]

4. +1

I am sick of assholes thinking it's OK to be assholes because Trump is our president! These people need to be taught a lesson!

[Idoru]

13. Damn straight.

Her ass would be in serious trouble if I witnessed this.

[TeapotInATempest]

14. I'll help you with that!

Deplorable is too mild a word for these people.

[Duppers]

31. ...

[Coventina]

5. But by golly, if we call them "Deplorables" we're being MEAN!!

[Generic Other]

8. They are worse than deplorables

They are mad cows!!

[Coventina]

9. Agreed.

Although, even mad cows don't get that way on purpose.

These freaks get off on being mean.

How are you doing? How is your family?

[Generic Other]

21. Coping thanks

Yelling about the political mess distracts me from how quiet it is in my house.

[Coventina]

22. .

[JHan]

11. Many of them, particularly on the alt-right, have hundreds of names for us.

but if we dare say "deplorable" it's a problem.

#Gaslighting

[WinkyDink]

6. In his way, Trump has "let loose the dogs of war."

[JHan]

10. that's what is scary, he's lifted this ugliness up.

[WinkyDink]

15. Yes, and he'd better now watch his own back, for one disappoints these people at one's peril.

[ProudLib72]

12. Do you want to bet

that, if she could have, the woman would have kicked Delon into the stream? This is one step away from physical attack on a person. Still a crime to kick the dog. This woman needs to be put in a heavily guarded mental institution.

[Doreen]

29. I would ask her if she abuses her children because it has been

proven over and over and over that people who will do that to an animal will more than likely do it to people. Then I would push her in.

[irisblue]

17. The comments at the article are very depressing.

I have to quit reading them.

[Calculating]

20. That one guy is just a troll

He takes a contrarian opinion on every trib article he can find.

[lunatica]

23. If someone did that to one of my pets

I'd haul off and knock them to on their ass.

[wildeyed]

24. In my city, someone aimed a gun at a Muslim woman nursing her baby in her car.

An unarmed woman with a baby in a parked car.....

What do you say or do to protect people from that kind of random assault? If you are kicking a small dog into the water or aiming firearms at babies, we can assume that you violent and have lost your fucking mind. But what can we, as citizens do to help? I would do something if I was there, but it's random. And it is becoming more common. I wish I had a solution.

[Solly Mack]

25. I would be in such a rage that there is no telling what I would do.

That evil, vile woman.

Oh, man.

No. No. No.

[gopiscrap]

26. what a fucking ignorant piece of shit on two counts

First of all being a xenophobic idiot and secondly harming a little animal that can't begin to defend itself, specially when all it wanted to do was make a friend this is the typical republican mind set

[DFW]

27. What has happened to us is obvious

Twenty years of Fox "News," National Hate Radio unfettered--THAT is what has happened to us. And to think that here in Germany, where the forbidding of Nazi hate speech is the one restriction on free speech still on the books, some still cry for those restrictions to be removed.

No longer the shining city on the hill--now, rather becoming a dark cave where less and less sunlight penetrates. The kicking, screaming racist woman is but a mere pawn, albeit a willing one, of the evil manipulators who fill her head with such poison every waking minute of her day.

You all know about neighborhoods around the world "so dangerous, even the cops never dare go there." So now, we are developing areas of oru own country where decent, tolerant people never dare go. Nice going, Rupert, Roger and Rush--you guys probably read a story like this and consider it a sign of your success.

[marybourg]

28. What has happened to us? The emergence

of the reactionary right from a dark, ugly, hidden place.

[democratisphere]

30. Perfect example for loathing deplorables.