Video Shows Gas Station Attendant Beating Woman Who Says She Just Wanted To Use Bathroom

DOLTON, Ill. (CBS) — Video obtained exclusively by WBBM-TV successful Chicago shows an attendant astatine an Illinois state presumption beating a pistillate who said she lone wanted to usage a bathroom.

Be warned that the video is graphic. The video besides sparked protests extracurricular the state station, forcing it to adjacent aboriginal connected Wednesday. By 10 p.m., the lights astatine the 24-hour presumption were disconnected and it remained closed. It amounted to a ngo accomplished for the protesters, who are furious astir the onslaught connected the woman.

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The protesters offered up a rally and a outcry of outrage earlier successful the time astatine the Shell presumption connected Sibley Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue successful Dolton. The assemblage gathered for the woman, Nakeyah Smith, who was near bruised aft the assault.

“Seeing the video for myself, each clip I adjacent my eyes to spell to sleep, that’s conscionable each I see,” Smith told WBBM’s Jermont Terry. Sher said she tried to usage the state station’s restroom and was primitively denied by the antheral down the counter. But determination was a pistillate moving too.

Terry: “And you asked that pistillate what?”

Smith: “‘Can I usage the bathroom?’”

Terry: “And she allowed you to go?”

Smith: “She fto maine to spell to the bathroom.”

Terry: “And arsenic you’re walking towards the bathroom…”

Smith: “I perceive him travel from down the antagonistic and spell to fastener the door.”

Fearful of what the antheral would do, Smith said she accidentally urinated herself successful the aisle. She said she has a aesculapian information involving her bladder. “It’s a aesculapian condition,” she said. “I can’t power it each the time.”

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Smith said erstwhile she tried to permission the store, the worker would not fto her. “The video you got – that was the extremity of the situation,” she said. “That was not the beginning.”

She said the antheral refused to unlock the door.

“So I started to unlock the door. He pushed me. I propulsion him back,” Smith said. “So I continued to fto myself retired and helium started hitting me.”

Smith’s person was locked extracurricular watching successful horror. It turns retired the idiosyncratic who was signaling was a stranger. “She doesn’t cognize her,” said Nakeyah Smith’s mother, Tene Smith, who is grateful the alien captured what she did.

“Those were blows,” said Tene Smith. “He attacked her.”

Late Wednesday, the beforehand doorway of the state presumption was boarded up – aft friends yet broke the solid to get Nakeyah Smith retired safely. They rallied aft learning radical person complained astir the worker before. “Check your people,” said Tene Smith. “When you get complaints, cheque into those complaints.”

Dolton constabulary were sitting extracurricular the state presumption Tuesday night. The antheral turned himself successful to Dolton constabulary precocious Tuesday day – 2 days aft the assault.

Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard said she ordered the constabulary main to get progressive successful the probe personally. She released this statement:

“I americium personally saddened, hurt, and aggravated aft viewing this horrifying video. Before immoderate rubric I whitethorn have, I americium a Black pistillate first. This young lady’s symptom is besides my pain. I person ordered the Chief of Police to beryllium personally progressive with this investigation, but to besides enactment intimately with the Cook County State’s Attorney to guarantee that due charges are brought upon this coward who committed this heinous act.

“This incidental speaks straight to the contented of unit against women successful this country. My bosom hurts for this young woman. I americium praying not lone that she heals from the injuries she has suffered, but moreover the intelligence aspects successful which she volition present person to endure.”