Five teenage girls are now in police custody after a vicious beating that took place in a Flatbush, Brooklyn McDonalds. The focus of the attack, a teenage girl who apparently went to Erasmus High School with the suspects, suffered a concussion, bruises and contusions. The attack was so brutal that it’s not only causing arrests, but community action:
A prayer vigil is being held Monday outside the Brooklyn restaurant. Community activists are holding the vigil for peace and to denounce such violence. “Yeah, this was the call to action – to say enough is enough,” community advocate Tony Herbert said. Herbert recently announced a new task force called “One Family, One Community.”
But let’s not forget why this is getting attention in the first place–the viral videos that came out of the event where it shows multiple people filming and watching the attack but doing NOTHING to intervene.
Team Blackness also discussed updates on the police shootings in Ferguson, San Francisco cops caught being racist, and a even more cop-related sadness.
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