Posted on 07/11/2015 7:13:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Her car damaged, her nerves shaken, the victim of an alleged group attack near the University of Chicago campus with her children in the back seat of her car talked exclusively with ABC7 Eyewitness News about the incident Friday night.
Police say two people were arrested and charged, but Susan Pedersen says several dozen people were involved in the incident that left her two kids covered in broken glass.
The encounter left several dents in the vehicle and shattered the back window.
"I'm very scared, very anxious, nervous. Just fearful," she said.
Broken glass littered the pavement at 60th and King Drive across from Washington Park, where the attack took place around 9 p.m. Thursday night.
Pedersen says she had just dropped off a friend at the University of Chicago with her daughter and son in the back seat. She said she stopped at a red light and found herself surrounded by several dozen young people.
"They were walking around both sides of the vehicle - in the front, in the back - and as they were walking across, they were hitting my car, using racial slurs and telling me that I didn't belong in their neighborhood because I was white," Pedersen said.
The group, all African-American, she says, kicked the vehicle and shook it violently. Her children were in the back screaming.
Pedersen said one person was on a bicycle - the group used it as a battering ram, shattering the back window, with glass flying into the third-row seat where 3-year-old Benjamin was seated. The broken glass left cuts on the boy.
Pedersen said a police car, which happened to be nearby, arrived and the group scattered.
Police say two juveniles were arrested. Pedersen, however, is still unnerved.
"This is something that's going to stay with me for the rest of my life," she said.
Police say the two juveniles have been charged with misdemeanor criminal damage to property, but Pedersen says this was more than a property crime and she would like more serious charges filed.
At 60th and MLK she was already a fair distance from the University campus so she was likely lost.
Well, at my age I don’t know if I could give every one of them a little something, but I do now carry fifty one rounds for such occasions. I doubt I could get off that many rounds before most of them disappeared ... ya never know what dead soul feral yutes will do to the woman and children, so best to just give them all a little somethin’
Reading between the lines, as it were...
The ‘friend’ that the woman driver was taking home was ‘black’ and that is why they were in that area.
It was after dropping off her friend, at a stoplight (could have been several blocks away) that the trouble began.
I went to see the University of Chicago on a visit to the city in 2001. Your description of the area is spot on.
I;m getting that sticker
Is this a love crime?
May be true, but the best weapon was the one she was driving. Maintain a steady rate of speed and do not stop. Once you ran over a few the rest would scatter.
How prejudice is born! Tell me who is at fault here then tell me the excuses that will finally convict the driver and her kids.
In another Chicago story, Glo Gang Rapper Capo was killed in a drive by. At the end of the story they mention that the driver in the gunman’s vehicle drove up on the sidewalk killing a baby in a stroller. What sort of a world makes the child’s death an “Oh, by the way . . . If you’re interested.” statement.
I would have run them over and headed to the nearest police station.
tell this woman to LEARN!
Hate crime.
Yeah, the woman’s soft heart could have gotten her and her children slaughtered.
Obama will have no comment. The MSM will have no comment. This will remain a local story and will not enter into the national consciousness.
If the victim and been black and the perps white, this would be the lead story on the national news, Obama would be holding a press conference, and JJ and Sharpton would be winging their way to Chicago. But as it is - NOTHING. The MSM make me sick.
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