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.”
“Lawyers for Ferguson were pleading for leniency, saying that she was a mother trying to turn her life around.”
...... but she was trying to turn her life around.
...but much different approach had to be used with a black woman.
Would you mind expounding on that comment...
If you visit McDonald’s in these black neighborhoods it’s pretty intimidating.
I was in this location about two years ago. After getting my wife and child back in the car I never felt so relieved.
Baltimore, DC, Atlanta.... you walk in and realize you put your life at risk.
I think women are psychologically much different than men in general...
Men tend to deal with their anger and learn to funnel it in a non-violent way, unless they are a psycho...
Women tend to drive their anger inward until they pop, then all hell breaks loose...
Of course they are exceptions ...
It just occurred to me that perhaps His Dishonor the Mayor is attempting to run off all of the decent teachers like you so that they can be replaced by his Marxist brown shirts.
***It’s full of black kids, especially girls,***
I got my first lesson in how blacks act back in 1959 when I was cussed out by a black girl for no reason. I had never lived around blacks. Latinos, American Indians, yes, but not blacks. I never even spoke to this girl.
The language she used was most vile I had ever heard. Again, that was 1959, Artesia, new Mexico. I was 12 years old.
On the lam eh? Have they considered cutting off their EBT cards? /s
Perhaps we’re seeing the end of this idiotic social experiment where we take savages who belong on a reservation and have them live among the settlers on the Great Plains.
Ferguson = Folly
Where are the fathers? Oops, that’s a racist question.
“black culture has gone rogue.”
Yes, it has. You are spot on.
Agreed - and the illegal drug industry has the power to change cultural priorities in a way the alcohol industry hasn't exactly because the former and not the latter is illegal.
Just a few short decades ago...
I'm trying to imagine a malt shop scene in 1950 America, where the young women are beating beating each other to death while all the patrons cheer.
Those who think this will all somehow get better in America, are clearly not paying attention.
You have pointed out a fundamental shift in our society.
I can remember as a yout in the 50s each murder in town was a significant news event.
Now they are on the level of traffic tickets.
It gets worse. Communist run newspapers like the LA Times gave this story 10 words days ago then gone...But you can find endless stories of the plight of Hispanics and illegal McDonald’s workers.
I see you are from Tampa...I worked for a Security company in the Bank Building across from the Dog Track back in the late 70’s giving polygraph exams. My observation of Black women comes from thousands of tests I ran in my career. I am not a trained psychologist nor behavior analyst so this is just my opinion. I think most Black women are survivalists. The majority of them grow up under extreme circumstances and learn how to fend for themselves at an early age...they become street smart. Many become Asocial...they do not know right from wrong. I had one black woman write out a $67,000 theft confession and when she signed it she looked at me and asked, “do you think Mr. X is going to fire me for this?” She showed no deceptive reactions on her charts but she was my main suspect so I bluffed her...it worked. Other black women wouldn’t admit to lying even when you showed them evidence that they were lying...they knew not to admit to anything. I guess there were many, many reasons as each person is an individual but Black women are in my book, the meanest cat in the jungle. Now that is not to say that I have known and tested many wonderful black women who were as honest as the day is long
and I absolutely love my Black Christian sisters but for the most part if a black woman turned sour she was tough to deal with.
I’m trying to imagine a malt shop scene in 2065 America, but I’m afraid it will be cannibals sucking out bone marrow.
In the Newark NJ welfare hatchery, gibsmedats despaired of setting upon their victims by the drive-thru window (since you had a few moments to get the car window up before reaching them); they eventually would set up inside the place close to the registers. As you turned from the counter, the familiar outstretched palms would confront you.
It is the kind of mistake you make once (before you realize the whole place is geared towards the drive-thru anyway - the fifth car will get its order before the second person at the counter).
Absolutely; just by being gainfully employed the McDonalds staff was worth much more than the attackers. Why would People That Matter risk everything for People That Don’t Matter? They’d probably be prosecuted and fired for interfering with nature...
They won't. They'll be out soon. Prisons are so crowded these days. And the ACLU will help them.
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