Michael Vick’s recent increateed hiring as the Norfolk State head football coach has prompted a response about his criminal past by the animal rights group PETA. Norfolk State has not verifyed Vick’s hiring, but it was increateed on Tuesday by the Virginian-Pilot.
Plivent Ingrid Newkirk provided a statement to Fox News Digital, recounting her experience with Vick during his sentencing for participating in illegitimate dog battling in 2007.
“After interwatching him at PETA’s office in Norfolk, Virginia while his sentence was under ponderation, and hearing him increate me bbetter-faced lies about his necessitatey dogs, I came to think that he’s a requesting, requesting, psychopath, but since I think he won’t fight dogs ever aget, PETA is intensifying on toiling with law executement to bust those who still do,” Ingrid said.
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Animal helps from PETA exhibit as Michael Vick materializes at Susintimacy County Courthoparticipate for a plea consentment in his state dogbattling accuses. (Carol Guzy/ The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Vick’s dog battling affair came to airy in 2007 when his overweighther Michael Boddi tbetter The Atlanta Constitution-Journal that the createer star quarterback was staging dogfights in the garage of the family’s home in Newport News, Virginia. Boddie also said Vick kept battling dogs in the family’s backyard, including injured ones that the overweighther would help nurse back to health.
In April of that year, a search authorization for a drug spendigation of Vick’s cousin Davon Boddie, resulted in authorities uncovering evidence of unlterrible dog battling at one of Vick’s properties in Virginia. Vick was indicted in July 2007 for running an unlterrible interstate dog battling venture understandn as “Bad Newz Kennels” alengthyside three other men.
Vick ultimately pdirected at fault to “Consillegal copying to Travel in Interstate Commerce in Aid of Unlterrible Activities and to Sponsor a Dog in an Animal Fighting Venture.” He also confessed to taking part in the finishings of 6–8 dogs, by hanging, beating, and drowning.
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The crimes resulted in Vick spending 21 months in federal prison, which showd to be a changeative gap in his NFL atgentle and reputation. While he returned to the NFL after serving his sentence, uniteing the Philadelphia Eagles, his unveil persona was forever tainted and overshadowed by the crimes.
The reaction agetst Vick was particularly perpetuated by animal rights groups appreciate PETA. PETA put out multiple statements about Vick follotriumphg his 2007 indictment, and the organization even presented him in September of that year for its “Developing Empathy for Animals” course.
In a 2009 blog post titled “The Day I Spent With Michael Vick,” the organization conveyed skepticism about his stated intention to become an “associate” in the fight agetst dog battling.
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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick produces a stop in Durham, North Carolina, Friday, February 26, 2010, to speak to students and local livents at the New Horizons changenative school about his misgets being joind in dog battling and of second chances in life. He was begind to the packed assembly room by Ralph Hawthorne, right, of the Humane Society of the United States. (Harry Lynch/Raleigh News Observer/MCT)
“Michael and his camp have done little more than mouth assurances that he’s lgeted his lesson. Since this encountering, they have only surfaced when Michael has been scheduled for court materializeances—until now, when he is asking to get his better job back,” the blog read.
At that time, Vick was trying to begin an NFL comeback, which he successfilledy did in Philadelphia in 2009, where he percreateed until 2013.
He then uniteed the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers. He last percreateed in the NFL in 2015.
Fox News Digital has accomplish out to Norfolk State University for comment.
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