Gang of teenagers attack woman and kids at red light for being white

Teenagers shattered vehicle's windows.

A woman now lives in fear after she and her children were attacked by several dozen young people near the University of Chicago over the weekend. Susan Pedersen's vehicle was surrounded by a group of teens, as she was stopped at a red light. The teenagers reportedly began kicking and shaking the car, as her two young kids cried out in fear in the backseat. Two people have been arrested and charged, but Pedersen was dissatisfied after they attacked her family near the campus for being in the wrong neighborhood.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "They were walking around both sides of the vehicle - in the front, in the back - and as they were walking across, they were hitting my car, using racial slurs and telling me that I didn't belong in their neighborhood because I was white," recalled Pedersen as she talked with ABC7 Eyewitness News.

Her two children cried and screamed and were left covered in broken glass, after the attackers smashed their car around nine p.m. Pedersen explained that one of the teens was on a bicycle that the group used as a battering ram to shatter the glass window at the back of the car where the kids were seated.

Her three-year-old child Benjamin suffered from cuts. Glass debris was littered at 60th and King Drive across from Washington Park, resulting from the violent attack near the campus. Pedersen just dropped off a friend at the University of Chicago and was on their way out, according to her statement with the police.

Two suspects were arrested after the police drove by the scene where the group fled and were charged with misdemeanor criminal damage to property.

However, Pedersen wants more serious charges filed. "This is something that's going to stay with me for the rest of my life."

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