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ABC7 Exclusive: Woman allegedly attacked by group near University of Chicag0 campus with kids in car
ABC7.com (Chicago) ^ | 07/11/2015 | Eric Horng

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.


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To: RightGeek

At 60th and MLK she was already a fair distance from the University campus so she was likely lost.


21 posted on 07/11/2015 7:38:53 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Where in the world do these kids learn to do these despicable things?


22 posted on 07/11/2015 7:39:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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’


23 posted on 07/11/2015 7:40:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: usconservative

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.


24 posted on 07/11/2015 7:42:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: usconservative

I went to see the University of Chicago on a visit to the city in 2001. Your description of the area is spot on.


25 posted on 07/11/2015 7:42:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: timestax

I;m getting that sticker


26 posted on 07/11/2015 7:43:31 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is this a love crime?


27 posted on 07/11/2015 7:43:52 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: MHGinTN

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.


28 posted on 07/11/2015 7:46:30 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: timestax
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29 posted on 07/11/2015 7:46:56 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


30 posted on 07/11/2015 7:48:29 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: bakeneko
But it's not too far......the U of Chicago is on 59th Street and then there is the Midway. May be a bit west of the University, but not too far. That being said, I would have never driven through there at night anyway.
31 posted on 07/11/2015 7:50:27 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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32 posted on 07/11/2015 7:50:28 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I would have run them over and headed to the nearest police station.


33 posted on 07/11/2015 7:51:22 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: timestax
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34 posted on 07/11/2015 7:54:44 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

tell this woman to LEARN!


35 posted on 07/11/2015 7:55:41 PM PDT by cherry
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36 posted on 07/11/2015 7:59:21 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hate crime.


37 posted on 07/11/2015 8:03:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Mom MD

Yeah, the woman’s soft heart could have gotten her and her children slaughtered.


38 posted on 07/11/2015 8:05:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


39 posted on 07/11/2015 8:09:42 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


40 posted on 07/11/2015 8:13:23 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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