WINONA, Minn. – A neighbor heard a woman screaming for help. Police rushed to an apartment and found a couple who had been in a heated argument over a dog and that it had turned violent. The woman said that Brandon Marques Pierce, 26, had become angry because a dog was sitting on a couch. His anger intensified, she said: He grabbed her and threw her on the couch. When she threatened to call police, she said, he took her phone and sat on her. When police asked Pierce for his side, he responded that had nothing to say because “this is a women’s state.” He was booked for interferring with a 911 emergency call and domestic abuse. This was about 9:50 a.m. in the 250 block of East Sarnia Street.

Pierce. Seemed to say that men can’t get a fair break anymore.