It’s been one month since Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd, and in some ways, it feels like the Black Lives Matter movement is receding from the headlines. A horrifying attack on a Black teenage girl is enough to remind us that racially motivated violence has gone nowhere, however. Althea Bernstein, an 18-year-old EMT and student, was driving her car in Madison, Wis., on Wednesday, when a group of white men lit her face on fire.
“I was listening to some music at a stoplight and then all of a sudden I heard someone yell the N-word really loud,” she said in an interview, according to Madison365. “I turned my head to look and somebody’s throwing lighter fluid on me. And then they threw a lighter at me, and my neck caught on fire and I tried to put it out, but I brushed it up onto my face.”
It was around 1 in the morning, and she was driving to her brother’s house. Black Lives Matter protests had been going on in the city with renewed energy after the arrest of an activist, Yeshua Musa, Madison365 reported, though Bernstein said she hadn’t been participating in them.
18-year-old Althea Bernstein says she was at a stoplight in downtown Madison around 1 am Wednesday when four men yelled the N-word, threw lighter fluid on her, and lit it. She spoke with our @robchappell365: https://t.co/MpH7FLnNEn
— Madison365 (@madison_365) June 25, 2020
She said her attackers were four white men.
“Two of them were wearing all black, and then the other two were wearing jeans and a floral shirt,” she told the site. That’s significant, as right-wing counter-protesters have been wearing Hawaiian shirts, a symbol of the white nationalist “boogaloo” movement. Police are looking into whether there is surveillance footage of the attack.
Bernstein said she experienced “textbook” shock as she was able to put out the fire, drive through a red light, and continue straight on to her brother’s house, not yet feeling the pain in her face. She then drove herself to the hospital.
“They had to pretty much scrub the skin off, which was extremely painful,” she told Madison365. “Burn pain is something I can’t even really describe. I don’t know how to describe it. It was horrible.”
She may need to have plastic surgery to repair the damage those men did to her face.
“It’s totally unacceptable given everything that is going on this country,” Michael Johnson, the CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, told Buzzfeed News, speaking on behalf of the Bernstein family. “It’s just unacceptable behavior that we’re just not going to tolerate.”
If you have seen any GoFundMe pages set up for Bernstein, be aware that they are not authorized. Bernstein said that at this time she doesn’t need financial support and has adequate health insurance.
She told Madison365 that she would rather supporters “[s]ign the petitions. Support the movement. Support Black lives.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/white-men-light-black-teenage-125731007.html
I hear a Bubba Smollet Wallace is looking for a date and co-conspirator
Sounds like another fake hate crime to gain attention. Please see http://fakehatecrimes.org/ for proof of false reports for financial gain. Sickening!
(((althea bernstein’s))) photos of her “burns” and lack of burnt hair is pretty amazing.
mazel tov to ya, you filthy lilttle LIAR!!!!!
sayanim are everywhere to help them with this commie B.S. putsch.
Bern(((STEIN)))??? Really?! Every. Single. Time.
Boy are these BLM type thugs getting desperate! When you have a black looking lady named BERNSTEIN?
Oh, and BTW, Antifa etc., when the awake (as opposed to the “woke”) see a black person with a Jewish surname doncha think they already suspect a false flag? When (according to someone’s research) only 1 in 6 members of BLM are black?
Then again since she is light-skinned, maybe she’s descended from a Jewish slave owner named Bernstein….
Sorry, not buying the BS…
They even had those white supremacist floral shirts on?
Most people can’t remember what their mom was wearing at dinner yesterday but as her face caught fire she remembered what each of four people where wearing?
Talk about a black jew.
Also while driving only pics of her right side has what looks like a rug burns. Not fire burns. Not a class Charlie fire birn…. Burnstein???
Burn stein fits the narrative agenda
Yea right if I dont see it I dont believe it . This jew ran government is throwing more gas on the fire that they started.