{"id":48611,"date":"2026-04-12T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48611"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:55:02","slug":"new-york-grandmother-75-attacked-for-asking-dog-walker-to-pick-up-after-her-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48611","title":{"rendered":"New York Grandmother, 75, Attacked for Asking Dog Walker to Pick Up After Her Pet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A dog walker remains at large after pummeling a 75-year-old Brooklyn grandmother to the ground when she asked the passerby to pick up after their pet \u2014 the assault only stopping when a neighbor, a Navy vet, came to her rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">A Ring door camera video shows Linda Scott repeatedly punched in the face and kicked earlier this week in front of her Crown Heights home, suffering injuries that landed her in the hospital.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2042348762773754181\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImMeme0\/status\/2042348762773754181\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even after Scott was pounded onto the walkway in her own yard, the unidentified woman in pig tails continued to punch and stomp on her head.<\/p>\n<p>Her 37-year-old neighbor, who only identified himself to the <em>New York Post<\/em> as Mr. Barnett, said he\u2019d just returned from the gym at around 9 a.m. Monday when he noticed the \u201ccommotion\u201d in front of the senior\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cIt seemed like a dispute about the dog poop or whatever\u2026 a shouting match back and forth,\u201d Barnett, a train conductor, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us-news\/nyc-grandma-75-brutally-pummeled-over-dog-poop-clean-up-request-until-navy-vet-neighbor-steps-in-video\/\">told<\/a> the <em>Post<\/em> on Friday. \u201c[When] the young lady in the red came around the corner\u2026 the way she approached Miss Linda just let me know that she was about to do something to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI saw the gate was coming up, and then the young lady came up and put her hands [on the victim] and started assaulting her, that\u2019s when I got out [of] the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the attack two dogs scurried around the attack, both of them running freely, which is not only improper dog walking etiquette, it is unlawful in New York City where canines must be on a leash no longer than six feet.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett pulled the attacker off the senior then scrambled to close the gate. He described the victim as a \u201cstaple in the community\u201d who had \u201cbeen here for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman who attacked her was reportedly accompanying another woman who was walking her dog. Just before the attack, one of the women accused the senior of throwing ammonia on her pet, according to the <em>Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The vacant lot next to her home has been a problem for years, her son Michael Scott, <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/2026\/04\/08\/crown-heights-grandmother-brutally-beaten-following-fight-over-dog-poop\/26O1Z2vEvHn4xLA4dyC3O4\">told<\/a> News 12. Neighbors allow their dogs to use the lot but don\u2019t clean up after them, creating an odor that can be smelled from adjacent homes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a9d adSo\"\/>\n<p>His mother admits to dousing the lot with ammonia, which deters the dogs from pooping there, but said she does not use it as a weapon directly on the canines themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to pick up after a dog in a public area carries a $250 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/dsny\/what-we-do\/cleaning\/animal-waste.page\">fine<\/a> under the city\u2019s \u201cPooper Scooper Law\u201d established in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was released from the hospital Wednesday after the Monday morning attack.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, the assailant was still on the loose, police told the <em>Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributor Lowell Cauffiel is the best-selling author of the Los Angeles crime novel <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Below-Line-Hollywood-Crime-Novel\/dp\/1956763481\/ref=sr_1_7?crid=KQ1QYVPX21QM&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.r_NVW3uv7PgjANhquB5aMnnQgiThgebLb0CRzDfYT44fKy0b05JBB4VC_i9Gn5wLkYfbUov8wILZGdttzIFUIG-fEWOUlaO2GoLT-s2L5uAKUSvtkk33hPdsM0w3Gq7Ntwy9rZi_aFmGvXTTcxRMkYXp_YxwyyYaoQ6sUElRgywcmEZXAjgg27VLy52prx1W7ejqSpUnZ6lZhHddZ87IR7qrJiWRb6Td_mzJCwazhcQ.5Vd2xzVJKDyQdeutrrvsihk3b6tua570r1NFGfnDTs0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=below+the+line&amp;qid=1744394320&amp;sprefix=below+the+lin%2Caps%2C132&amp;sr=8-7\"><em>Below the Line<\/em><\/a><em> and nine other crime novels and nonfiction titles. See <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowellcauffiel.com\/\">lowellcauffiel.com<\/a> <em>for more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2026\/04\/11\/watch-new-york-grandmother-75-attacked-for-asking-dog-walker-to-pick-up-after-her-pet\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dog walker remains at large after pummeling a 75-year-old Brooklyn grandmother to the ground when she asked the passerby to pick up after their pet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}