Posted on 10/23/2008 1:26:12 PM PDT by MountainLoop
PITTSBURGH -- A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank's surveillance cameras.
The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.
Joe the Plumber beat her up! (sarc)
Ditto
And just because she didn’t take medical treatment on the spot - we DON’T know what that means - that could have meant an ambulance, etc. Maybe she did just go to an after hours clinic or someone drove her to the hospital for OFF the spot treatment.
GEEZ - let’s wait for the facts to come out for those that are thinking “fishy,” and then we can “judge”...
PLUS - just because she didn’t get on the spot medical treatment (which usually involves an ambulance - not always, but sometimes) - that doesn’t mean the police didn’t take photos of the battery/assault AT THAT TIME.
I’d call this a HATE CRIME. I hope the son-of-a-bitch pays dearly for this.
It's not upside down if she was on the ground and he was above her head.
Yet he controlled his rage so well, that he inflicted shallow scratches rather than actual cuts.
/devil’s advocate
If he had her from behind in a chokehold with both standing and wrote a B on her face it would, indeed, be backwards.
Remember Levi’s myspace page?
The Du crowd will say the B is backwards because she did it in a mirror.......just saying, be ready for their DUm attacks.
“If he had her from behind in a chokehold with both standing and wrote a B on her face it would, indeed, be backwards.”
You are correct.
It’s also not upside down if he is standing behind her and has her in a chokehold. If he’s 6-4, 200, and has her in a chokehold she ain’t moving.
Any policeman will tell you that robbers hang out around ATMs looking for potential victims. A small, twenty year old girl in the wrong place at the wrong time could easily be a victim. I find her story entirely plausible.
That girl does not look like the girl on the myspace page.
/devil’s advocate
Could have been a very dull knife ...
/God's Prosecutor
You may shoot to stop. I don't. I not only fill hollow points with dog waste but intend to empty all five chambers if I should have to use The Judge. Not meaning any insult, but people who "shoot to stop" are foolish in thinking that a thug who is intent on harming you with deadly force is worth saving. And employing only " stopping force " may get you killed. Such attackers have made their choice to reap what every whirlwind you have at your dispocal; they are human vermin and deserving to be ground hard into the ground they trod.
Could have used his car keys or her car keys on her face.
0bama has really brought this nation together hasn’t he?
I really hope she did not do this to herself.
The people that write this stuff also write stuff like "the subject was a white, male Caucasian...."
It sounds to me like the cops feel it is totally plausible. They’ll have the video of what she looked like when she went to the machine, and if she actually took out a deposit. Why aren’t we giving the girl the benefit of the doubt. We’ll have enough people doubting her. We should we do it?
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