For the second weekend in a row, teenagers attacked both people and property, causing a lot of damage to both. Police say word spread online for the teenagers to mass in the street.
This is the mini mart that got trashed. The mob left here and headed back toward South Street. Two blocks away, they came across a young couple in a Jeep who spoke exclusively with Action News about their terrifying ordeal. They asked us to conceal their faces and last names.
“Laying in that bed in the hospital thankful that I’m breathing, I’m alive,” said Nick.
Nick and his girlfriend Susanne were in a Jeep, stopped at the light on Broad Street. Earlier in the night the teens had marauded through South Street, carjacking a cab and crashing it, jumping on the hoods and roofs of other cars.
They went up Broad Street and swept through a mini-mart, completely trashing it. Then they found Susanne and Nick.
“I got really scared for the fact that there were so many of them and they were literally everywhere, everywhere I looked there were people and they were just beating and cursing and yelling and they were in front of my car, on the side of my car pounding on the windows,” Susanne described.
Susanne says the first mistake she made was getting out of the car.
“They threw a bag of chips at me and a water bottle and when I turned to get back in my car they grabbed me by my hair and pulled me down and just started kicking and punching me.”
Nick tried to help, but he was pummeled to the ground.
“As soon as I exited the car to grab her I was hit from all directions and on the ground covering my face up from being kicked.”
Both spent the night in the hospital getting treated for cuts and bruises.
This is at least the second rampage incident over the past two weeks. Another couple was attacked last weekend at Broad and Walnut.
Police say the teenagers use social websites and text messages to announce gatherings and then assemble from all corners.
When Susanne was attacked, one of the first people she called was her mother in North Carolina. Trish Grant hopped the next plane out.
“To think of someone pulling your daughter by her hair and dragging her on concrete pavement is uh it makes you angry you know it makes you very angry as a parent.”
The police acknowledge this is a growing problem. They are looking into a possible connection to a nearby Junior High School, and are also looking at a social networking website. They’re hoping to be able to head off any further trouble.
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With the return of troops from the Middle East perhaps there needs to be a Presidential order to have these troops assigned to the inner cities and along borders to strengthen the infrastructure of the United States. With a growing population it is necessary for people to become more courteous,accepting and united to create a Nation that encourages the love of Country, a safe environment in which to raise of children and to live in Peace, without fear. Hate and revenge are a never ending cycle that poisons minds from generation to generation. Put all that effort in making a positive impact on your own neighborhoods not destroy others. Hate is for small minds,forming packs of humans doesn’t not lead to individual thinkers. If one is involved in these situations the law convicts on “guilt by association”. Walk tall, walk strong and make the best decisions for the majority.Be a positive example for future generations. Make a change !
:-x Ironic Rendell was Mayor there and keeps pumping state tax dollars into school in that sh&8hole of a city as Governor…Those people need changes in parenting and family..before they even get to 1st grade…Its there culture…As for the worthless Gov of Pa…he is a big part of the problem!
Where have you been, idiot? What have you been reading. Crime in America is at its lowest in three decades and continues to fall.
Care to provide a source for that statement? That’s not what the official statistics show.
While PRELIMINARY results for 2009 show a decrease in almost all crime categories over the same period in 2008, that really doesn’t mean much. It is preliminary and I have seen how misleading PRELIMINARY results are before.
The only recent reliable measure we have is 2008 and overall crimes was up (hardly three decades). All across the board, in every category, crimes has increased over the last three decades, with a slight decrease in 2008 over 2007.
It is said Philly is a dump! They need marshal law. Bunch of wild animals running around. We need to have some crazy snipers go after these hood rats instead of normal working class people!!
:) fuck all u stanky dick sucking crakers pay is coming and this is just the begining
Hey nigger, you dumbass low-life subhuman, dirty fucking nigger; what beginning u cry for? The jewSA falls and u niggers will pay for every inch of crime you committed. Mark my words, nigger. You will cry for Hitler, bc the retalliation will be awful…
And for the White ppl: carry guns, legally or illegally. Still better to save your life than beaten up or being killed. In the first move shoot the niggers 2-3 the rest of them will run. Make sure the niggers being shot die at the scene.
This kind of savagery is becoming more common in Philly. Recently Asians were the victims of several racist attacks by roving black thugs in a S Philly High School. Hopefully one of these ‘flash mobs’ will stumble on someone with a concealed carry permit. But then what can you expect from a ‘culture’ with a 70% illegitimacy rate who worship criminality via (c) rap and hip hop ‘music?’ People need to arm themselves to defend themselves against these kinds of hate crimes.