Across the country, people are demanding for justice and an end to police brutality.
23ABC's Imani Stephens shares the story of a local woman who says she was a victim of a hate crime following her participation in a local protest.
BRUTALITY.23ABC'S IMANI STEPHENS JOINS USLIVE WITH THE DETAILS ON ALOCAL WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE WAS AVICTIM OF A HATE CRIME WHILEPARTICIPATING IN A LOCALPROTEST....JESS, A 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN SAYSSHE ATTENDED A PEACEFULPROTEST ON SUNDAY NIGHT, THEN BYMONDAY NIGHT HER CARWAS SET ON FIRE.
IT'S NOT ONLYHER CAR BEING SET ON FIRE THATMAKESHER WONDER WHO COULD'VE DONETHIS, BUT THE RACIAL SLURSTHAT WERE WRITTEN ON THE DOORSOF HER CAR.<VONNESHA HARRIS"I WAS STANDING UP FOR WHAT IBELIEVE IN AND WHAT OURCOMMUNITY IS COMING TOGETHER FORAND PEOPLEDON'T LIKE THAT.
SO PEOPLE WILLDO ANYTHING THEY CAN TOSTOP YOU"AND VONNESHA HARRIS DID JUSTTHAT ON SUNDAY NIGHT....SHEALONG WITH HUNDREDSPARTICIPATING IN THE PROTEST OFTHE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYDBUT IT WAS MONDAY NIGHT, WHENHARRIS NOTICED HER CARWAS SET ON FIRE, DESTROYING THEINTERIOR OF HER CAR....ANDRACIALSLURS WRITTEN ON THE OUTSIDEDOOR OF HER CAR<VONNESHA HARRIS"I CAME OUTSIDE TO MY CAR AND IWAS WRITING MUSIC LIKE IN MYCAR.
I DON'T KNOW.
I THINKEVERYBODY DO THAT.
JUST PEACEAND QUIET, PEACE AND QUIET SPOTFOR ME.
SO I CAME OUTSIDEAND THEN WHEN I WENT BACK IN THEHOUSE, LIKE 20 OR 30 MINUTESLATER, OUR NEIGHBOR CAMEKNOCKING ON THE DOOR AND SAID,SOMEBODY'S CAR WAS ON FIRE ANDIT WAS MY CAR."THE KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'SDEPARTMENT SAYS DEPUTIESRESPONDED TO THIS INCIDENT...ANDTHE COUNTY FIREDEPARTMENT ARSON UNIT ISINVESTIGATING THIS AS AN ARSONCASE AND POSSIBLE HATE CRIME ANDAS TO WHO MIGHT HAVE DONE THIS,NO SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED<VONNESHA HARRIS"MOST TIMES WHEN STUFF LIKE THISHAPPENED, SOMEBODY HASBEEN THREATENED OR SOMEBODY HASBEEN FOLLOWINGTHEM AND THEY HAVE A CLUE.
IDON'T HAVE A CLUE AT ALL.
LIKE IDON'T, I DON'T KNOW.
AND THESCARY PART ABOUT IT IS THAT IDON'T KNOW WHO IT IS"IF SUSPECTS ARE IDENTIFIED, THEYCOULD FACE FELONY ARSONAND POSSIBLY HATE CRIMECHARGES...WHILE HARRIS IS UPSET THAT HERFIRST CAR IS SIGNIFICANTLYBURNED, SHE SAYS THE OUTCOMECOULD'VE BEENMUCH DIFFERENT<VONNESHA HARRIS"I'M ALIVE AND I WASN'T IN THECAR, BUT IT'S SOMETHING TOLOOK OUT FOR"WE REACHED OUT TO KCSO, AND THEKERN COUNTY DISTRICTATTORNEY'S OFFICE FORINFORMATION ON THE PENALTY ANDCHARGES, BUT DID NOT HEAR BACKIN TIME FOR AIR.
REPORTING INBAKERSFIELD, I'M IMNAI STEPHENS,23ABC NEWS,CONNECTING YOUWELL CHECK THIS OUT -- THEDELANO POLICE DEPARTMENT
Alexandria Hoff reports.
Two woman at odds over one man and $20. Their paths crossed in the laundry room at the Windsor Valley Community Center in Edgewood..
