A pit bull’s vicious attack has left a San Francisco woman with life-threatening injuries … and video of the aftermath shows the dog drenched in her blood.<\/p>\n
The attack went down in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday morning before authorities found the victim with the dog standing over her … its face beet red with gore.<\/p>\n
The video — obtained by CBS News<\/a> — is pretty graphic and shows a police officer struggling to restrain the animal with a snare pole.<\/p>\n The victim was later treated by medics who rushed to the scene … before being taken to a nearby hospital. Her current condition is unknown.<\/p>\n As for the dog … cops say that while it was being restrained, it became unresponsive … before being declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n The witness who called 911 — Ashley Powell — told CBS News … “She was walking by. The dog was with the owner. And the dog just jumped and attacked her. Just started pulling her, biting her hands, fingers, chest, face.”<\/p>\n The attack lasted for another 10-15 minutes, Ashley said … as regular citizens tried to pull the dog off the helpless victim.<\/p>\n She added … “I had residents up there saying, ‘Get the dog off of her, get the dog off of her.’ A lot of people were going up and trying to pepper spray the dog, but it was just still trying to attack the lady.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a second eyewitness said that the owner of the dog — a regular in the area — initially tried to help out before booking it from the scene.<\/p>\n The deadly attack is not unprecedented in San Francisco … two Presa Canarios mauled Diane Whipple to death in January 2001 … and Kimberly Guilfoyle<\/a> prosecuted the case for second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, securing a couple of convictions against the dogs’ caretakers.<\/p>\n The media coverage surrounding the trial launched Kimberly to national fame.<\/p>\n Want to see more TMZ content on Yahoo? Be sure to follow us<\/a>. Also, add TMZ as a Preferred Source in Google by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pit bull’s vicious attack has left a San Francisco woman with life-threatening injuries … and video of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[181049,101,103,102,104,106,105,126349],"class_list":["post-459003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ashley-powell","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-vicious-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}