Holy shit, that's a humongous beast!
Yes, but the dog just wanted a "friend", so that makes it ok.

I think it's pretty ignorant for anyone to think non-dog owners [Black people are notoriously not pet owners] would somehow know that a dog that size is friendly.
I was attacked multiple times as a paperboy, a job I started as a 9-year-old boy in 1991. One of the dogs, a German Shepherd, had to be put down.