A California woman was shouted at with vicious insults during a brutal attack by an Oakland gang who attacked her for no reason.
Amanda Raye, who declined to give her last name, has a level two concussion, 11 lacerations on the back of her head, a footprint on her chest from where someone stomped on her and multiple bruises from the attack, she said. KTVU.
She was just a few blocks from home in Oakland and had just picked up a pizza after the Dodgers won their game when she was suddenly hit in the back of the head, she told the outlet.
“They didn’t make any effort to steal anything from me, they didn’t do anything to take anything from me, it’s just legitimate hate,” she told the outlet. “They kept repeating ‘that fat b**ch, stupid fat b**ch’ as they had their cell phones recording over me.”
She described the group as being between 17 and 20 years old.
Amanda Raye, who declined to give her last name, has a level 2 concussion, 11 lacerations on the back of her head, a footprint on her chest from where someone stomped on her, and multiple bruises from the attack.
She was just a few blocks from home in Oakland and had just picked up a pizza after the Dodgers won their game, when she was suddenly hit in the back of the head and attacked by a group of young people.
Raye said she thinks the attack only stopped because she managed to get one of the boys to the ground and “bit him through his calf.”
“And from there it slowed down,” she told KTVU.
One of her attackers even helped her get her phone back after the group smashed it, while another yelled at them to stop before taking off in a getaway car, the outlet reported.
The getaway driver tried to hit Raye before leaving the scene, she said.
Then she ran ‘in the middle of the street’ begging someone to stop and help me, and cars sped past me,” she told the outlet.
“It took a while before a young couple stopped to help me,” she said.
Raye said she believes the attack only stopped because she managed to get one of the boys to the ground and ‘bit him through his calf’ (Photo: CCTV footage of the attack)
Since her attack, she has been “very willing to leave the Bay,” where she has only lived for about a year, because it has left her “scared.” She also invested in a taser (photo: some of her injuries)
Emergency services arrived at the scene around 1:30 am and she was taken to hospital.
Raye said she was discouraged by the number of people who passed her in her time of need.
By sharing her story, she hopes one of her attacker’s parents will see it and help them, because they “will end up in jail for this kind of behavior,” she said.
“I don’t want this to happen to other people,” she said.
Since her attack, she has been “very willing to leave the Bay,” where she has only lived for about a year, because it has left her “scared.” She also invested in a taser.
“I don’t feel safe in this neighborhood at all,” she said.