Thread: Teens face ethnic intimidation charges after brutally beating woman in North Side

Updated: 8:13 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 | Posted: 8:25 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26, 2013

Teens face ethnic intimidation charges after brutally beating woman in North Side

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PITTSBURGH — Three teenage girls are facing several charges, including ethnic intimidation, after police said they brutally beat a 32-year-old woman Sunday in Pittsburgh’s North Side.

Investigators said the incident happened around 2 p.m. near the intersection of Concord and Itin streets.

According to police, the girls threw a bottle at the woman’s car, and when she stopped to confront the girls, they attacked her.

“It’s sad, but it doesn’t surprise me. Our youth …,some of them are going in the wrong direction,” said one resident who did not want to be identified.

Officers said the woman was kicked, punched, robbed and left in the middle of the street. Police said they also called the victim a racial slur.

Witnesses ran to help the woman and one man said he watched as the three young black girls, ages 14, 15 and 16, were arrested.

“About 10 to 15 minutes later a bunch of cop cars came up and put them all in the back seat of the cop car,” the man said.

The victim was taken to Allegheny General Hospital and is expected to be OK.

The girls were taken to Shuman Detention Center and charged with ethnic intimidation, robbery and conspiracy.

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So.....let me get this straight.....White attacking black is a "Hate crime".......while black against white is "ethnic intimidation"???????

Mother of two beaten by gang of black teenage girls in brutal 'racist attack' in which she 'thought she was going to die'

• Ginger Slepski was set-upon by four teenagers when she confronted them for throwing a bottle at her car

By JAMES NYE
PUBLISHED: 14:58 EST, 28 August 2013 | UPDATED: 17:07 EST, 28 August 2013
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A Pittsburgh mother has said that she feared for her life when she was attacked by a group of teenagers in the city's North Side on Sunday as they beat her while calling her racial slurs.
Ginger Slepski said that she suffered torn shoulder ligaments in the attack by the four black teenage girls which has left the electrician mother-of-two unable to work.

'I thought it was so animalistic,' said Slepski toWPXI. 'So violent. I'm afraid for these girls to get out and walk the streets.'



Attack: Ginger Slepski said that she was attacked in the street on Sunday by a group of black teenagers in a racially motivated incident

Police in Pittsburgh said that Slepski was attacked after one of the teens threw a bottle at her car as she was driving through the North Side of Pittsburgh.

'I was mad. I knew they were younger,' said Slepski. 'I thought they were in their early 20s. I got out and said, 'What is your problem?'

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The four teens were African-American and have now been arrested by Pittsburgh police and face charges of ethnic intimidation and juvenile counts of robbery and conspiracy.

The names of the suspects will not be released by police, but all are between the ages of 14 and 16. Video at the Page Link:

See more of the interview at WPXI.com




Battered and Bruised: Ginger Slepski shows her injuries to the cameras - which are preventing her from working



Attack: Slepski was set upon as she argued with a group of teens in Pittsburgh's North Side on Sunday

Slepski said that she tried to escape the girls when she realized she was outnumbered but one of the girls grabbed her by the hair.

'The one punched me in the head and I was on a set of concrete steps and my head hit the concrete so hard,' said Slepski to WPXI.

'Then they all got on top of me and all their hands were in my hair. They kept telling each other to, ‘Kick her in the head. Kick her head in the concrete.’



Racial Attack: Four black teens now face charges including ethnic intimidation and juvenile counts of robbery and conspiracy



Scene: Slepski was savagely beaten after the girls threw a bottle at her car on Concord Street

The mother-of-two said that the attack was witnessed by several people, but they were too scared to help.

'Another woman was yelling at the girls, ‘I’m calling the police!’ And it’s like it only made it worse,' Slepski said.

Eventually a man jumped in to separate the girls and Slepski and allow her to escape.

'I do feel like it was very racially motivated and I grew up in the neighborhood,' said the electrician.





At Home: Ginger works as an electrician at Marsula Electric and has lived in Pittsburgh all her life

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