Posted on 04/15/2010 4:26:55 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A victim of Philadelphia's March 20 flash mob, Anna Taylor was referred to in media reports only as the 27-year-old woman injured on South Street.
Little was known or said about her.
That will change Wednesday night, as people gather in a Frenchtown, N.J., restaurant for a benefit for Taylor, an uninsured waitress who faces $7,000 in medical and dental bills after being punched in the face by a youth still being sought by Philadelphia police.
Taylor, who is separated and lives in Chalfont with a son, 9, and a daughter, 3, said she has thought a great deal about the punch - "the shock," "the blinding pain," and "the heartbreak that a teenager hit me in the face for no reason."
The blow that Taylor absorbed was so powerful that she lost a front tooth and its root, and the roots of nearby teeth still may die, her dentist told her. The punch also split her upper lip so severely that much of it was hanging from her face and she was unable to speak, Taylor said.
Taylor's mother, Peggy, a Germantown social worker, said her daughter needed so many stitches inside and outside her mouth at Hahnemann University Hospital after the assault that "we just couldn't count them."
The mob took over South Street that warm Saturday night, the first of spring, as though popping up from nowhere, witnesses said. It seemed to be following the patterns of three similar mobs that had quickly assembled in Center City on March 3, Feb. 16, and Dec. 18.
"They had smiles on their faces as they scared people at random," Assistant District Attorney Angel Flores said in an interview with The Inquirer a week after the March 20 attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Gee she is white...wonder waht color the perps were?
Boy....the mainstream media has been all over this one....let me guess it must have been gratuitous black on white violence with no motive other than race.
"The two of them thought punching us was funny," Kemp said. "I don't know what was in their heads to hit two people they didn't know."
This is the moment they will probably stop being liberals and start understanding that there is indeed right and wrong, good and evil in the world.(I don't propose to know them, forgive me if I've read this wrong)
It's pretty straight forward to me. A mob was summoned for some wilding. Two black yutes came and found some easy targets. Had Mr Kemp been carrying the result could have been very different.
My heart goes out to the girl, speedy recovery.
I wonder how many blacks will be at the benefit for her?
I would guess quite a few.
Three guesses! The First Three dont Count! And they most probably had OBAMA TEE SHIRTS on when they perpetrated the Horrendous, Dispicable Crime!
They had a reason. You were white, and they could get away with it.
Welcome to Øbama’s post-racial American utopia. Every white person is in the crosshairs of this administration, this congress, union members, the LMSM and every minority Zero supporter.
Serves her right...being white.
Those that are beaten, raped, murdered and their relatives can whine and call the victors evil which helps the feelings of impotence. In short, as the Gaul said to the Roman: "Woe to the conquered."
Notice you had to go almost all the way through the article to get the race of the perps.
Why do I think she voted for Obama?
"It's obviously the fault of the local police for not reaching out to the community."
Let's see,
The "urban-hipster" liberal. White, college educated, moves downtown after graduation because of the affordable apartments and thriving nighlife. Enjoys the many museums, art galleries, bistros, cafes and restaraunts, clubs, and so on. has a lot of gay friends but probably doesn't give too much thought to race-relations. Knows where the bad parts of town are and tries to avoid them. Tends to move to the 'burbs when they want to start a family because they wisely know downtown is just too dangerous for their children and the schools are terrible.
Oh, yeah, and they vote democrat.
I live in Philly and tried writing the author of local paper why no mention of race of victim (I guessed she was white, along w/ many others). White cops are getting shot up like fish in a barrel in this town. Diversity kills.
Another liberal mugged by liberalism’s reality. That will make for a conservative generation coming right up. Boomers went conservative after a widespread race mugging in the 70’s. It beat the stupid out of idealism.
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