Steve QJ
2 min readNov 8, 2021

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No, I can handle that just fine. As I've said already, I can completely understand how somebody might have felt intimidated if a stranger said that to them. I'm not defending what he said. My issue is that you are defending her abusing her dog and lying to the police. And whenever I point that out to you, you blame it on a "heightened emotional state" that you have no evidence for, except the fact that she behaved appalingly. It's completely cirular reasoning.

More plausible than a "heightened emotional state" is that she's just a negligent dog owner. She chokes her dog for over a minute, not because Christian has said anything to her or made any aggressive move towards her (as is very clear from the video, the only person making aggressive moves is Amy), not because it's difficult to leash her dog, but he wants him to stop recording her. Ask yourself why that is. She clearly has a choice between leashing her dog and abusing it on camera and chooses the latter.

So yes, she threatened to lie to the police because she wanted him to stop filming her (I've never denied that), but the whole situation started because she's entitled and didn't want to follow a simple rule. Christian escalated the situation with some very poorly chosen words (who knows why he started filming her, probably because she said something that made it clear she's a liar). Amy escalated it further by threatening to lie to the police and then actually doing it. Again, I can see what Christian did wrong, my issue is that you seem incapable of recognsing what Amy did wrong.

And yes, Jerome felt threatened by Christian,but a) that was a different scenario, with different people, and this one obviously started very differently, and b) I have no issue with the fact she called the police. My issue is that in both calls, not just the second one, she deliberately tried to mislead them. I've already said this too, but if she dialled 911 and said "there's a man trying to feed my dog without my permission" there'd be no issue.

Anyway, it seems like we've started going around in circles. I've already said most of this in other replies. It seems very unlikely I'm going to change your mind but thankfully the police see it the same way I do. If I ever bump into you with your unleashed dog in a dog park I promise not to use any threatening language. Hopefully, in return, you won't lie to the police about me.

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Steve QJ
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