Posted on 12/05/2022 11:43:25 AM PST by Red Badger
Philadelphia police are searching for a black female suspect who viciously assaulted a University of Pennsylvania student in Center City. The “violent and unprovoked assault” left a 23-year-old female student with a broken nose and fears that she can no longer attend classes safely. Philadelphia’s continuing crime crisis has increasingly affected university students in recent weeks, prompting fears that the city’s numerous colleges could see a drop in enrollment if the issues are left unaddressed. “She turned toward me and started running toward me. (She) swung on me and broke my glasses and my nose,” the student, who wished to remain unidentified, told ABC’s Alyana Gomez.
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The University of Pennsylvania student said she is speaking out to warn other women of the heightened sense of danger on Philadelphia streets. “It felt like it was going on for a long time without anyone stepping in,” she said.
Video of the assault — which shows a black female suspect throwing the victim to the ground while proceeding to punch and stomp her — is being reviewed by the Philadelphia Police Department. At one point in the video, the attacker even dragged the victim through the middle of a busy street.
“When she had me on the ground is when I was really panicking and trying to fight back. I tried to grab her ankle to get her off balance but it didn’t work. She just overpowered me. It was scary,” said the victim.
The “unprovoked” assault took place on November 20 around 12 p.m. at Broad and Spruce streets. Bystanders recorded the video and captured a clear view of the attacker’s face, though a suspect has not been named as of this time. “Still very shaken and adjusting. I’m still super uncomfortable resuming normal city life because it did happen out of nowhere,” the victim said.
SEPTA police believe that the same woman was involved in another “unprovoked” assault on a woman that same day. Captain Rodger Walls said she boarded the train at 15th Street station and slammed a woman’s head against the wall, ABC 6 Philadelphia reported.
“The actor, who is this Black female in question was mumbling to herself and just out of nowhere randomly attacked her and then disembarked from the train,” said Walls.
On September 1, the same woman attacked yet another woman at the Spring Garden station, police say. “She definitely has to be suffering from some kind of mental illness that’s why it’s just the pictures of her have been disseminating throughout all patrol, so we really are on the manhunt for her,” said Wells.
The hunt for the suspect continues as a series of high-profile violent crimes have become a massive point of concern at North Philadelphia’s Temple University. In addition to the murders of two Temple students and recent graduates in the last year, a series of home invasions targeting students has brought the issue to the spotlight.
Just days after District Attorney Larry Krasner departed from his usual “bail reform” approach to hold one of the home invasion suspects on a high bail fee, a man was arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail into a row home where four Temple students were living. The man, who was arrested weeks after the disturbing attack, is reportedly a squatter who was living next-door, authorities said.
The students reportedly called the police on the suspect after he was suspected of involvement in a number of car break-ins targeting students.
Why do peeps continue to live in filthy, crime-ridden demoncrap cities???
Between 1983 and 1994, every last relation moved to Arizona, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. A few still maintain summer cottage homes in the Poconos. It's far enough away.
Was it black on black crime?
Mentally ill but sane enough to avoid being caught? I'm skeptical.
I visited Philly just three weeks ago. We spent all our weekend in the city center and were out till eleven PM both nights, did a lot of walking and had no problems. But since that trip I think this is the third violent incident I've read about in Philly. Maybe we were just lucky....
Black on White.
Ok, so the article clearly states the perp was BLACK. But never do they mention the color of the victim.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
City of brotherly love. /sarc
“...prompting fears that the city’s numerous colleges could see a drop in enrollment...”
And that’s a bad thing?
There’s no place like ‘home’..............
My crazed anti-Trump brother-in-law and his brood live in Paoli. My relatives live in Germantown and have either passed away or moved. Not many Germans in Germantown these days.
Yet another example of the Press (who is your enemy) not putting forth all of the facts and letting the reader make an opinion. Why not mention the race of the student, they mentioned her sex and her age and her occupation (student)?
Just some playful Wilding. Move along, nothing to see.
“We” could be the deterrent? Traveling alone is risky.
I used to deliver furniture in that area. It has always been bad. You reap what you sow!
As soon as you read “... and stomp her,” you know the nature of the perp.
WHAT value systems tells them it’s OK to attempt grave bodily harm like this?
Agree. I lived in center city Philly in my college years. I never worried being out after dark with my friends, but didn’t ever go around after about 8:00 by myself and even then, very cautiously and quickly.
I lived within “stumbling distance “ of McGillan’s Pub but still never slipped over there alone.
And Philly was much safer back then. Frank Rizzo was running the show.
I would bet $100 the victim was Korean/Chinese/Japanese
Chestnut Hill for us. A few on Luncoln Drive. All gone.
McNally’s in Chestnut Hill. Best bar I’ve ever been in. Cisco’s in Flourtown was a close second.
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