A teen’s McDonald’s beating was caught on camera, the video is grabbing headlines today. In the three-minute video, a 15-year-old girl can be seen swinging at another teenager, who teams up with three other friends to punch, kick and slap her. The incident took place at a McDonald’s located in Flatbush Avenue near Erasmus Hall High School. What is very disturbing about the footage is the fact that no one intervened as they watched the teen get beaten by four others – instead dozens of high schoolers could be heard cheering and calling the victim names. The girl and her family have refused to talk to the police because they fear gang retaliation.
A Brooklyn McDonald’s beating of a 15-year-old girl from Erasmus Hall High School has people talking. On Monday afternoon, a large group of students walked into a McDonald’s restaurant on Flatbush Avenue.
The students attend Erasmus Hall High School located in Flatbush Avenue between Church and Snyder Avenues in New York City. An African-American girl in an orange wig and blue shirt tried to punch a 17-year-old school mate for a yet-unknown reason.
What happens next can only be described as savagery. The 17-year-old dressed in a black hoodie and three of her friends all African-Americans started punching the teen.
The foursome kicked the girl until she landed on the floor. They tore her sweater and ripped the wig from her head and slapped her. With 4 against 1, the 15-year-old rapidly found herself crawling under a table in order to shelter herself from the epic beatdown.
As the beating was taking place, the dozens of teenagers and the two adults in the eatery, could be heard cheering the perpetrators to keep going as they cheered and called the teen names like “bitch” and “slut.”
One person even went as far as mocking the bruised teen by saying:
“She is dead, this is murder.”
According to the police, no one who witnessed the Brooklyn McDonald’s beating called 911 or intervened. A person walking near the fast food restaurant saw the melee and approached a cop near Flatbush Avenue and explained what was going on.
Now, this where the story gets really complicated. When authorities arrived at the restaurant, the fight was over, but the girl refused to get medical help and told them she was not a “snitch” and declined to reveal who beat her.
Picture of 17-year-old female suspect at the center of the Brooklyn Mcdonalds beating.
The teenager’s mother has also refused to talk to the police because her tormentors are members of a violent crew/gang called the Young Savages that operates out of Crown Heights.
Law enforcers are hoping to contact the young woman’s father, so he can convince her to cooperate with them. According to the teen’s grandmother, she collapsed twice the days after the beating and was hospitalized at the Kings County Hospital.
The elderly woman told local media as she wept:
“She can’t sleep because she got kicked to the body. She fell again and they had to take her to the hospital.”
After the beating, Paul Goodman, the owner of this McDonald’s location, issued a statement claiming that his employees did call the police at least 3 times. The statement read:
“The safety of my employees and customers is my top priority. In keeping with my restaurant policy, my employees contacted the police at the onset of this situation. As part of the Flatbush community, I will continue to work with the NYPD and community leaders to ensure the safety of customers. Since this is now a under police investigation it would be inappropriate for me to comment further.”
In a statement released by the New York City Police Department, it was revealed that they know the identities of the criminals and they might take action against them soon. The police said:
“We have names. We have pictures. We have video of all these individuals. So save the taxpayers money and bring yourself forward.”
Update:
Aniah Ferguson, 16, has been arrested and the police are working to identify the other suspects in the case. Ferguson, a mother of a 1-year-old has been arrested several times in the past – once for stabling her own brother. The victim, Ariana Taylor has been busy on Facebook telling the world that she is famous now.
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