ABC7 Exclusive: Woman allegedly attacked by group near University of Chicag0 campus with kids in car

ABC7.com (Chicago) ^ | 07/11/2015 | Eric Horng

[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.

[5th MEB]

Well; I see OBASTARDS children just created another rabid racist, and rightfully so.

[ladyjane]

allegedly attacked?

Smashed windows, car filled with glass, child with cuts, police witness.

Alleged? Is that because she is white? and you know how whites lie.

[roadcat]

White People don't belong there. Period. Doesn't matter what time of day, it's a no-go zone for anyone who's white.

I thought blacks were against segregation? Oh, never mind, they're only against whites clustering together.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Eventually one of these groups is going to pick on the wrong victim. One who is armed and a good shot. Of course the media will vilify him for opening fire on his lynch mob, but it will be too late - other people who have been attacked, menaced, and threatened by such mobs will also carry guns and use them.

And while it is ill advised to “go hunting” for such a mob so that they can “punish” it, some may do this as well.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Let me guess...the mother and her children deserved it due to their “white privilege”?

[dadgum]

Just say “NO”!

Start shooting the scumbags.

[Crim]

The moment the glass breaks, I am in fear of my life or bodily harm and I unload into the crowd.

[Figment]

A hate crime for sure

[Figment]

Why don’t people just hit the gas and blow through these feral gangs?

[silverleaf]

I’m going to guess this clueless soccer mom voted for Obama

Twice

[The_Media_never_lie]

The liberal media is the scum of the earth. Lying propagandists.

[fella]

Open or even concealed carry would have prevented or stopped that incident right quick.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

More Death Angels on the way?

From Amazon books. A customer writes:

This book recounts the horrifying crime spree known as the Zebra killings that happened in the Bay Area in the early 1970's. This spree, committed by black members of an offshoot of the Muslim religion, was done in an attempt for the murderers to win "Death Angel" status. This dubious honor was given to any "true believer" who murdered a certain number of white children, white women, or white men, or a combination of the three. (One received more credit for slaying a child or woman than a man supposedly because it would take more fortitude to do it. However, the author believes [with good reason, I think] it had more to do with the murderers being cowards afraid of anyone who might fight back.) Taking place over several months, the killers took several lives and wounded others in their barbaric attempt to win Death Angel wings. The author does a splendid job in recreating the events as well as allowing the reader to get inside the head of the people who actually believed it to be an honor to murder others. What is even more chilling than the specific Zebra murders is the fact that other Death Angels supposedly existed in California and could be walking the streets even today. For those with a strong stomach wishing to find out about a savage wave of crime (a wave that has strangely been forgotten), this is a must read.

by Clark Howard.

[justa-hairyape]

You got to feel for the poor whites stuck living near these neighborhoods. And most of them probably consider themselves liberal and vote Democratic.

[Chgogal]

BTTT

[Tigerized]

Time to watch “The Naked Prey” with Cornell Wilde again.

Kinda brings the situation down to a basic level.

[HiTech RedNeck]

America seems to be doing a pretty fair job of punishing itself....

[DemforBush]

“Pedersen said a police car, which happened to be nearby, arrived and the group scattered.”

I shudder to think what might have happened had the squad car not arrived when it did.

[Josa]

Yep....all the stories about racist blacks were lies, until it happened to her. When some holier than thou liberal calls me a racist I ask their address.....which is always a white neighborhood and then turn that on them.

[DemforBush]

Thanks for the info. I was trying to place the area, but my knowledge of Chicago is pretty limited. In a former job, I had cause to travel to my company’s branch office in Chicago, but that was all the way out in Oakbrook Terrace, which probably is about as different from where this poor woman was attacked as it gets.