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.
Ah, more prankster, fun-loving teens. Also known as dindus.
I would make an example of every one involved in the group. I promise I would.
Black doing this so the national media will not cover it, instead they wan to cover battle flags taken down
I wonder if she was boxed in by other vehicles or whether she was hesitant about mashing a few with her car to get away.
By any definition, this was a hate crime. Let’s see what the arresting officers think.
Thank you Rahmie and Barack and Michelle and Valerie and the US Supreme Court and the US Congress and all you state and local politicians- who are so corrupted by greed and ego- that God is going to punish Our Country.
“African-American” huh?
How about prehistoric troglodytes? These animals never reached the higher branches of the tree of evolution and never will while a small portion of their race have integrated into our society fully and do things like obey law, have manners, integrated into our way of life and in general, become average law abiding, hard working Americans. However, compared to the troglodytes, they constitute a small ratio.
‘Rat funded ferals. Part of the Democrat Party’s War of Death to Americans.
60th and MLK Drive is not Hyde Park.
Once you get that far west of Cottage Grove you are on your own.
Not UofC’s domain.
misdemeanor criminal damage to property,
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A “misdemeanor”? Huh?
A three year old covered in glass and injured?
No hate crime there. Just a few youth letting off some steam.
BAN THE CHICAGO FLAG!
And refers to a group that is explicitly neither.
I know that portion of the city. I'll say it frankly and bluntly:
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.
Guessing the friend she was dropping off was black (typical demographic from that area...) and I'll also say that her friend did her no favor's by accepting a ride home from her. She had to know she was putting her friend and her friend's children at risk being in that neighborhood.
unless that's one REAL busy intersection... FLOOR IT!!!
You are correct. Keep in mind Eric Horng isn't from Chicago and in the few years he's been on Channel 7 he's obviously never bothered to learn any of the Chicago neighborhood boundaries.
Then again, aren't most of Channel 7's street reporters from somewhere other than Chicago now?
Maybe the friend neglected to inform her of the best escape route from campus.
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