One woman got a first-hand taste of Chicago Culture Thursday evening after dropping a friend off at the University of Chicago campus. What she didn’t realize at the time was that once you step off the University campus, it’s a whole different world out there.
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 after the incident, but that woman says several dozen people were involved. Her two kids left covered in broken glass.
The encounter left several dents in the vehicle, the back window shattered and Susan Pedersen shaken.
…”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, the kids in the back screaming.
Pedersen said one person was on a bicycle, the group using 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.
Meanwhile ABC7 is also reporting on the father of the 7-year-old killed last weekend in Chicago.
CHICAGO (WLS) –The father of 7-year-old Amari Brown spends a lot of time on Facebook; many of the photos and videos on his page appear to advertise packaged marijuana that is offered for delivery and large quantities of cash – mostly $100 bills.Despite Antonio Brown’s 45 arrests and 12 convictions – most for cocaine and heroin crimes – he and his attorney maintain that he was not the intended target when his son was shot and killed.
The grade schooler was shot on the Fourth of July by a drive-by shooter at midnight in Humboldt Park.
Because all seven-year-olds need to be out on the streets at midnight, right?
Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said the boy’s father was a ranking gang member and the intended target. McCarthy said Brown should have been in jail on gun charges instead of free on bond, which McCarthy said would have prevented his son’s death.
Brown and his attorney downplay the gang ties. But his Facebook page, under the name Nephew Booboo, feature what appears to be a thriving marijuana business with coded ads and prices for marijuana and for pills.
Chicago police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel were highly critical of Brown for not cooperating with investigators about his own son’s murder…
Booboo’s Facebook page has since been removed.
Never go to Chicago with out a gun. This lady should have used her car and ran over as many of them as she could.
No. She shouldn’t have run over as many as she could!
Once the window was broken, she should have run over as many as necessary to get her family to safety. Use maximum acceleration as you don’t want the car to get hung up on a body or three.
The lady with the ” mob attack ” must be living in a cave somewhere. She has to be a liberal for gun control that doesn’t trust the news media reports.
Scary stuff. I’ve heard it is pretty crappy neighborhood just outside the U of C campus. It is why I chose the UIUC many years ago.
Would you be justified to shoot.
You would, but why would you engage from inside a car with a 115 grain slug when you can just use a 3000# projectile instead.
True.
Wouldn’t your first instinct be to shove the accelerator pedal to the floor to get out of there? Especially with small children in the car?
San Francisco, Chitcago, etc.
Why is it the Democraps can never keep people in jail who belong there?
These are the kind of people Blowbama and HUD want to bring to your neighborhood.
You should not expect that any significant consequences will come to these “youths.” Chicago politicians and activists are interested in looking out for them, NOT you.
There is a steady drumbeat of calls for gun control and other limits on the actions of the law-abiding, while these same people refuse to assign any personal responsibility to those who victimize others and our communities. Instead of seeking to punish those who commit crimes and remove them from the midst of the rest of us who wish to live in peace, these apologist politicians and activists speak purely of “gun violence” as though the gun was somehow responsible.
We see Bill after Bill in the General Assembly seeking to benefit those who’ve been convicted of serious crimes. They want to: continually raise the seriousness of convictions that may be sealed or expunged; limit or even prevent employers from considering criminal history in making employment decisions; reduce or eliminate prison time for those who commit drug offenses; ignore the fact that marijuana is illegal under federal law; refuse to report to immigration authorities those who are in this country illegally, etc., etc., etc.
Yet while those who’ve committed crimes are seemingly entitled to every benefit of the doubt, those of us who have passed criminal background checks, a mental health background check, a local law enforcement review, and undergone extensive training and licensing at considerable time and expense, are viewed with fear and suspicion that we are the ones who cannot be trusted to conduct ourselves appropriately and in accordance with the law. We are the ones who are restricted in our activities. We have our childcare facilities, schools, universities, public facilities, public transportation, and a wide variety of other places conveniently marked as unarmed victim zones – precisely because those of us who have proven ourselves trustworthy are the ones these politicians and activists fear.
Each time you hear someone refer to “gun violence” you should ask them why they think the gun did it. What was the gun’s motive? Do they REALLY believe the gun possesses some sort of power as a magic talisman? I thought these people refer to themselves as the “party of science?” The truth is these positions are intellectually dishonest and borne of a refusal to accept and acknowledge personal responsibility.
Ask yourselves: Just whose side are these people on?
That woman and her 2 children are lucky to be alive.
Evolution is lacking for that particular breed.