Troubling video in Miami captured a man waving a machete and appearing to threaten a stray dog and a family trying to protect it.<\/p>\n
NBC6 on Saturday spoke with the family<\/p>\n
It was a scary moment for the family, but their main concern was protecting that stray dog in the small community near Northwest Miami Court.<\/p>\n
In the area, there are several animals , but many of them are without any homes, and last Saturday, one of those stray\u2019s named Lucky was threatened by a neighbor while outside a woman\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dog was here, literally like where that water stuff is, first he came trying to throw a rock at her,\u201d Ashley said,<\/p>\n
Ashley asked NBC6 not to show her face for safety purposes, but said that the encounter with her neighbor quickly escalated.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe goes, ‘Oh bet, I won\u2019t throw this rock,’ or whatever, and then he goes, ‘We were like okay,’ you know, like he\u2019s obviously just saying that,” she said. “Then he comes back with a machete.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ashley\u2019s mother recorded the terrifying moments as their neighbor wielded a machete at them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to kill it,\u201d the man was heard saying.<\/p>\n
Ashley said they called the police, and luckily, no one and the dog were hurt.<\/p>\n
She believes it was due to the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the cops came, he was saying none of that was true, and if it wasn\u2019t for the evidence that my mom took, like I don\u2019t know where we would have been right now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
From that day forward, Ashley and her family took it upon themselves to care for the dog until it found a safe home.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t turn a blind eye to that, yeah, I mean like, you wouldn\u2019t leave a homeless kid or not help out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ashley told NBC6 that the Rescue Dog Network picked up the dog on Friday and is now in the process of being placed in a safe foster home.<\/p>\n
As for the man in the video, Ashley said he was arrested that night.<\/p>\n
NBC6 has reached out to authorities for details on that arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troubling video in Miami captured a man waving a machete and appearing to threaten a stray dog and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1009,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-200805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}