Posted on 03/14/2015 11:22:46 PM PDT by EinNYC
Beatdown and then wheels up.
The bra-baring ringleader of the vicious McDonald’s attack was behind bars at Rikers Island held on $500,000 bond, as authorities grabbed a second teen suspect trying to flee the country on a plane bound for Jamaica.
The 15-year-old suspect was apprehended in Atlanta just moments away from flying off to the Caribbean. Atlanta authorities had been alerted to the brute’s travel plans and pulled her off the plane, officials said.
Of the four other girls implicated in the brawl, two other girls were awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Friday — and two others were still on the lam.
“It appears they have been lying low,” a high-ranking police source said of the remaining suspects. “We couldn’t find them at home or school.”
One of the two girls being held was identified as 17-year-old Tilani Marshall of Midwood. The other, a 15-year-old, was not named by police. Both teens were marched from the 70th Precinct stationhouse with their hands cuffed just after midnight and were awaiting arraignment on robbery and gang assault charges.
Neither spoke as they tried to cover their faces from the cameras. One, wearing jeans and Uggs, buried her nose in her grey zip-up sweatshirt. The other pulled her purple hood over her head and kept her head down.
Word of the additional arrests came hours after the Daily News obtained stunning details of 16-year-old Aniah Ferguson’s confession to cops.
Ferguson, smiling for the cameras after her arrest on Thursday, told investigators she had been hunting her prey since January because the victim had “done something to a very close friend,” a source said.
She was hit with felony gang assault and robbery charges which could land her in prison for up to 25 years. The troubled teen with a history of violence faced the court alone, without support from friends or family. She said nothing when Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Joy Campanelli sent her to jail on a stunning half-million dollar bond.
But the teen hell-raiser ran her mouth to detectives after getting picked up Thursday morning.
Ferguson’s exhaustive confession — summarized by a source — portrays a group of girls bent on exacting revenge.
Six girls were hanging out at one of their homes Monday when an unidentified male called to tell them that victim Ariana Taylor, 15, was inside a nearby McDonald’s.
Since there are two of the fast food joints in the area, the girls split up.
Ferguson and at least one of her pals found Taylor at the Flatbush Ave. eatery.
They told a girl inside the McDonald’s with Taylor that the pint-sized Erasmus Hall High School freshman was going to “get it.”
They warned the girl that “they will jump (her) if she got involved.”
Taylor was getting ready to leave, so Ferguson called a friend and told her to “hurry up.”
Once the other friend showed up, they approached Taylor and “put the beats on her,” the source said.
Minutes went by before an adult intervened. Several onlookers snapped photos and took video as Taylor was punched, kicked, pulled and stomped by a half-dozen girls.
The three-minute attack — caught on video and shared across the globe — was denounced by a parade of pols and police officials.
Some witnesses can be heard in the video cheering on the violence.
It wasn’t until Taylor was limp on the floor, with Ferguson stomping on her head, that a couple of customers stepped between them.
Ferguson’s hoodie came off amid the melee. But she kept punching and kicking Taylor while wearing only a purple bra.
Even after Taylor was lying motionless , Ferguson stomped her repeatedly because she was “still mad” about what the victim had done to her friend. A different police source said the clash was tied to a shooting, but didn’t provide details.
Ferguson walked out of the McDonald’s with Taylor’s coat, makeup bag and phone — and tossed them in the garbage, authorities said.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is offering a $1,000 reward — cash he is putting up personally — for information leading to the arrest of the other suspects.
At Ferguson’s Friday arraignment, prosecutor Leila Rosini emphasized the brutality of the attack.
“As the victim lies lifeless, she continues to kick her,” Rosini said.
The prosecutor told the judge that Ferguson, who has a 1-year-old daughter and a long rap sheet, belongs to the Young Savages gang.
The gang is an offshoot of Folk Nation, a violent group known to carry out credit card scams.
Defense lawyer Sarah O’Leary pleaded for leniency from the judge, saying that Ferguson was trying to turn her life around.
“She was making some efforts to better things in her life,” said O’Leary.
O’Leary said the video “speaks for itself,” but claimed Taylor didn’t sustain serious injuries in the mob-style assault. The victim suffered a concussion and multiple bruises and contusions on her body, court records show.
A police source said Ferguson was targeting Taylor because of her involvement in a previous shooting. No other details were available Friday.
Taylor, who has links to the 30 Crips gang and has been bragging about her newfound fame on social media, has not been fully cooperative with police, sources said.
But investigators were still able to quickly identify her attackers.
One of the 15-year-old suspects surrendered Friday at the 70th Precinct stationhouse with her mother at her side.
The other was joined by her lawyer when she was taken into custody, sources said. The suspects were not immediately identified.
Ferguson was well-known to cops.
The Brooklyn teen has been arrested six times since she turned 16 last July. She was busted on Feb. 3 for stabbing her brother in the arm with a knife. Four months earlier, on Oct. 14, 2014, she was charged with assault for beating up her 64-year-old grandmother.
At the time of Ferguson’s arrest, she had four outstanding warrants, prosecutors said.
Neighbors described her as a deeply troubled ticking time bomb.
Even Ferguson’s own mother has refused to come to her defense.
“I didn’t raise her like this,” she told The News Thursday. “I’m not sure why she did it.”
Disparate impact. It needs to be equaled out...
Social justice will fix this! now they will be able to blame this on them being black and dis enfranchised by the white priviledged thereby giving them a free get out of jail card
Thanks for posting this update about this story....
I watched the entire video a few days ago and clearly the attackers are vicious sadistic animals...
Not a ounce of compassion or mercy in their worthless souls...
I’m glad they were apprehended and given large bonds...
Hope they rot in prison for many many years...
So, the victim died?
The prosecutor told the judge that Ferguson, who has a 1-year-old daughter and a long rap sheet, belongs to the Young Savages gang.
Well color me surprised! I didn't think that it would be called the "Thursday Afternoon Bible Studies" gang.
Regards,
“Not a ounce of compassion or mercy in their worthless souls...”
Women. As much as we like to think of women as the “gentler sex”, they are far from it. What holds them back is size.
Sad to have to say this, but things were a lot calmer in the days of the night riders.
Interesting, but understandable in a way.
Who wants to jump in the middle of a melee of black “girls” on a wilding. . .and if you, heaven-forbid you are a white male, jump in and have to knock a few of the young “ladies” around to save the victim, you would be vilified in the press and attacked by the usual suspects for being a racist. . .and very likely sued and prosecuted for some sort of “civil rights” violation.
Sad but true.
Gee, I can’t understand the reason for “white flight” to the suburbs. /sarc
There are two violent victim groups. It’s easy to tell which one it is in a news story. “brawl” “McDonald’s “ and you know it’s America’s first victim group.
Must be nice that our tax dollars supporting this scum, is generous enough to fly this little gem to the Caribbean to escape justice. Unreal.
Just like the Ferguson, MO racist police.. SIX outstanding warrants? Yet blacks in the young girl's city are outnumbered by whites at least six-to-one.
Ignore blacks skipping court appearances until that ratio is reach.. no! Wait. Then
would have less to complain about. No money for them in that. Nevermind.
Did you see the vid of the altercation between two basketball teams (Texas Southern and Southern University, I believe)? Same philosophy, just at the “higher education” level...really a sad situation...
They are the children and grandchildren of LBJ.
And let's call like it is, it's Black Girls! ...far more the guys.
From jumping another girl in junior high, to young adults terrorizing fast food establishments on spring break.
That’s how best to understand the feral nature of American black culture. It is, and will always remain tribal. This explains the monolithic nature of their behavior in so many ways. I feel for those in the black community who flee and reject this behavior.
Even as we speak more and more of Brooklyn and Queens is being gentrified by young whites. One reason the authorities seem to be “shocked shocked” at this one among a million display of depravity may be that they are beginning to recognize a NEW wave of VOCAL constituents. Don't know where the displaced Blacks are going...maybe to the suburbs...
To address your observation of black girls exhibiting the greatest violence...I can attest to my professional observation as a polygraph examiner that black women were the meanest cats in the jungle. I taught Interrogation and always made my students aware of the most difficult subject to get a confession from was a cornered black woman...same techniques could break a black or white man but much different approach had to be used with a black woman...that’s what I found was so interesting about Anita Hill’s polygraph. Black women could lie through their teeth and show no physiological change making their charts show no deception.
Blacks do love their violence.
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