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.
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