Teen speaks after being brutally attacked at McDonald’s in Los Angeles
A teenage woman who was seen being crushed inside a Los Angeles McDonald’s is talking out after the terrifying incident unfolded final week.
Video of the violent confrontation confirmed 13-year-old Kassidy Jones being punched, kicked, and knocked to the bottom by a feminine suspect.
She was strolling dwelling from college when the assault occurred.
There have been dozens of witnesses on the restaurant and Kassidy’s household mentioned they’re disenchanted nobody stepped in to intervene or assist the woman.
Her household mentioned the assault was fully unprovoked they usually’re nonetheless attempting to know what precisely occurred.
“I’m okay,” Kassidy mentioned, as she recovers from the assault. “Simply attempting to maintain it collectively. Nonetheless attending to course of it.”
The assault occurred on Sept. 6 at a McDonald’s on Lomita Boulevard in Harbor Metropolis.
Kassidy and her associates had been on their manner dwelling from college after they stopped contained in the McDonald’s to make use of the restroom.
“They acquired some meals and I used to be going to the toilet,” Kassidy recalled.
However when she got here out of the restroom, a lady she had by no means seen earlier than instantly lunged at her and started beating her.
“It was completely unprovoked,” Kassidy mentioned. “I don’t know her. I didn’t say something to her.
Kassidy mentioned the lady was yelling at her in the course of the assault saying, “‘What the F are you taking a look at? I combat children. I’ll combat you!’”
Video of the combat exhibits the lady, who is far bigger than Kassidy, pulling the woman to the ground and punching her within the face repeatedly. As Kassidy tries to defend herself, a crowd of onlookers watch, however nobody intervenes.
“They’re trying they usually’re videotaping her simply getting beat up and nobody tried to cease it, the staff, the shoppers,” mentioned Angelina Grey, Kassidy’s mom. “You don’t simply sit there and watch somebody beat one other particular person. How will you sleep at night time?”
Angelina mentioned her daughter known as her sobbing and terrified. That’s when she instantly known as the police and rushed over to Kassidy on the restaurant.
“I see her and she or he’s coated in blood in all places,” Angelina recalled. “She’s crying nonstop. She wouldn’t cease crying.”
By the point they reached the hospital, Cassidy was badly bruised and crushed. Her face was severely swollen. She mentioned the lady solely stopped hitting her after a person she was with finally pulled her off Kassidy.
The suspect then grabbed her meals and left the McDonald’s.
“I need her to go to jail,” mentioned Angelina. “I need her to really feel what my child feels each night time. She’s in ache. She’s hurting. I can’t sleep till she’s behind bars.”
Cellular phone video of the assault captured the suspect’s picture. The sufferer’s household hopes somebody will acknowledge the lady.
“On the finish of the day it’s not proper for that to occur,” Kassidy mentioned. “That below any circumstances, a grown grownup ought to put their fingers on a child that did nothing mistaken to anyone. Simply being about my enterprise, going about my day.”
As Kassidy continues therapeutic, her household stays distraught. They’re asking anybody who could acknowledge the suspect or has info on the assault to name the Los Angeles Police Division at 1-877-275-5273.