Black Ink Crew New York, a VH1 present about tattoo artists working in Harlem, used to star a 43-year-old artist named Ceaser Emanuel. Now, the present has utterly severed ties with Emanuel after witnessing a disturbing incident of animal abuse perpetrated by him.
Footage from a Ring digicam went viral this yr, horrifying each followers of the present and canine lovers all over the place. The disturbing video exhibits Emanuel hitting a canine with a folding chair, amongst different issues.
The Abuse Incident Caught On Camera
This dialog actually got here to the forefront when the Ring digicam footage was posted to Twitter in late June of 2022. The video has a watermark, however you possibly can nonetheless clearly inform that Emanuel is abusing a canine.
The canine runs in direction of the nook of the driveway, and he follows it. Emanuel then picks up a close-by folding chair and repeatedly strikes the canine with it. Later within the video, he places a canine in a cage after which shoves the cage in order that it rolls over a number of instances.
I’ll embody it beneath so you possibly can see (when you can abdomen it) what occurred for your self.
that is sick ! Someone despatched of their ring digicam displaying Ceaser from black ink abusing a canine ! #vh1 #blackinkcrew #ceaser #blackink pic.twitter.com/TYMj7pDBbK
— INSTA: @gossipofthecitytea (@GOTCITYTEA) June 22, 2022
Fallout And Consequences
Black Ink Crew reacted fairly rapidly after this video went viral. VH1 fired Emanuel again in June. On June twenty third, the community shared this assertion:
“We have made the decision to cut ties with Ceaser Emanuel from Black Ink Crew New York. Since next season was close to finishing production, this decision will not impact the upcoming season.”
On July ninth, 2022, Emanuel turned himself in and was charged with two counts of animal cruelty and one rely of aggravated cruelty to animals. However, he went house later that day.
A consultant for Emanuel instructed The Shade Room:
“Ceaser willing turned himself in and was released the same day on July 9th from the Fulton County Police Department. His legal team is fully cooperating with the Fulton County Police Department to bring him justice for this incident. As we stated previously the dogs are in a great space, safe and healthy.”
Animal abusers are sometimes repeat offenders, so if charged with animal cruelty, Emanuel shouldn’t be capable of have canine anymore.
Emanuel’s Defense
Though Emanuel has formally apologized, he nonetheless maintains that what occurred in that video was not animal abuse. Emanuel’s lawyer, Walter Mosley, instructed PEOPLE that his consumer was making an attempt to cease an aggressive canine from attacking others within the video.
“Ceaser is an avid dog lover and has many dogs and has had in his lifetime, many dogs and other pets. This was an unfortunate situation as I understand it, where there were a number of other aggressive dogs attacking smaller dogs and probably was a lapse of judgment as to how to appropriately break it up, break up that interaction.”
Emanuel himself had beforehand responded to the video’s unfold with an analogous sentiment:
“Not one time was I trying to abuse this dog. I was trying to get him back in his cage. I’m not gonna make any excuses for myself. I should’ve behaved better, but that’s not me being cruel to animals.”
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Mosley went on to confess that Emanuel’s strategies have been flawed, however that his intentions stay good. He additionally emphasised that this video captured occasions “probably almost a year or older” and that Emanuel had already been working by them.
“In some ways, what was not seen in that video, was him protecting the smaller dogs, he just likely didn’t do this in the best way, so he’s seeking assistance and help to make sure that as a dog owner, he’s properly managing it, and understands how to interact in more healthy ways with all types of dogs and all of his dogs, but this is certainly a situation that he had addressed a long time ago.”
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Adding to that, Emanuel has stated he thinks the sudden “disruption” brought on by the unfold of the Ring digicam footage does unfair character harm.
“I feel like I’m being set up in some way because the way I’m being portrayed, that’s not my character.”
Emanuel’s former co-star, Donna Lombardi, disagrees. As she posted on Instagram:
“If you can treat a dog like this, it shows how sick of a person you truly are. I don’t even get into the life of this man, but this video made me so upset. Anyone who knows me, knows I LOVE animals. Especially dogs.”
The harm has been completed both manner, each to the canine and Emanuel’s relationship with Black Ink Crew.
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