Wisconsin police investigating after Black woman suffers burns, says white men tried to set her on f

[demmiblue]

Wisconsin police investigating after Black woman suffers burns, says white men tried to set her on fire

The Madison, Wis., police department is investigating a Wednesday assault as a hate crime after four white men allegedly poured lighter fluid on and threw a lighter at a biracial woman.

The police department said in a Wednesday incident report that “the victim believes she was driving on W. Gorham St. when she stopped for a red light at State St. Her driver's side window was down and she heard someone yell out a racial epithet."

The report adds that the victim, who has been identified in local reports as 18-year-old Althea Bernstein, said four white men used a spray bottle to “deploy a liquid on her face and neck, and then threw a flaming lighter at her, causing the liquid to ignite.”

Bernstein told the local outlet Madison 365 that the alleged attackers yelled “the N-word really loud.” She said that she was driving to her brother’s house, and she “just blasted through the red light … I just felt like I needed to get away. So I drove through the red light and just kept driving until I got to my brother and Middleton.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/504623-wisconsin-police-investigating-after-black-woman-suffers-burns

[Dream Girl]

1. Sounds fishy to me.