Teen girl has fake fingernails ripped off in suspected hate crime

A British teen girl was left bleeding from her fingers following an alleged hate crime attack by a group of girls who called her “the n-word” and ripped off her acrylic nails.

The 13-year-old said she and some mixed-race pals were taunted by a group of older white girls who “jumped” her and the others on Sunday.

“My daughter suffered serious injuries — basically she was wearing acrylic nails and they were all ripped off in the attack,” mother Lindsay Dunn told The Sun. “She was left bleeding badly.”

Dunn criticized staff at the Funderworld theme park in Bristol, Southern England.

“They didn’t take their names when they’ve witnessed a child bleeding and injured, so they knew it was serious. They didn’t call the police to detain the attackers.

“They were all shaking and distraught, but it was just ‘get them off site, brush it under the carpet’.”

The violence reportedly erupted on a ride when Dunn’s daughter and friends began singing to music and the other group of girls told them to be quiet.

“When they got off the ride, this group followed them off and began calling them the n-word, and giving them racist abuse,” Dunn said.

“The initial part of this incident was racially motivated, and that rings alarm bells with me.

“My daughter and her friends were upset and angry at this and argued back, and then the group of older girls jumped them, and started attacking them.

Police confirmed they were investigating the alleged race hate crime and appealed for witnesses to come forward.

But a spokesperson for Funderworld played down claims the attack was racially motivated, telling The Sun: “The alleged assailants were, in fact, a mixed group who comprised of both BME (black and minority ethnic) and white people.”

via: https://nypost.com/2019/04/17/teen-girl-has-fake-fingernails-ripped-off-in-suspected-hate-crime/

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