PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A police dog was punched and kicked by a suspect who officials said threatened a female acquaintance with a gun during a domestic dispute.

Authorities identify the suspect as Arthur Patterson.

Officials said they responded to a report of a male who entered a residence on the 900 block of Mina Street on Tuesday and threatened a female acquaintance with a gun. When officers arrived, they saw the man fleeing the scene, with a gun, into a wooded area on Rhine Street.

Two police K-9s were used to search for the man and spotted the suspect in some low brush before arresting him on the 1900 block of Rhine Street, police said.

While the man was being arrested, he assaulted a K-9 and a Taser was deployed to getWHEN she was eight, Maya Angelou stopped speaking. That was the year her mother’s boyfriend raped her. But worse than that, worse than the terrible pain in her stomach, worse than the blood or the feeling that her thin hips were coming out of their sockets, was the knowledge that her voice had killed him. After she cried out against him in court, he was found kicked to death. She did not speak again, except to her brother, for five years.

To be voiceless was not unusual for blacks in America then. They would plough, hoe and pick cotton uncomplainingly till they flopped like emptied sacks. Do what they were told, and shrug off the insults. Stay dumb as the dumb animals they were taken for, or else be