Police in Louisville, Kentucky, are investigating a Mother’s Day attack that resulted in a broken nose for a disabled army veteran.
The victim, Pamela Ahlstedt-Brown, says she was parked in a handicapped spot near the entrance of a Kroger grocery store and an altercation ensued when she backed up and noticed another vehicle blocking her in, according to Wave 3 News.
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“I get out, and I say, ‘Do you guys need any help?’ and she said, ‘F— you, you white b—-,’” Ahlstedt-Brown said about the attack against her. “‘Hold on, you don’t even know me,’ I said, ‘That’s fine. If you don’t need anything, that’s fine. I’ll get back in the car.’”
Ahlstedt-Brown, a military veteran, said the other vehicle’s passengers, four young black women in a Dodge Charger or Challenger, threw a cup at her and then attacked her.
“I mean, they were beating me, and I was in a fetal position, covering my face, making sure they didn’t get my eyes,” she said.
Ahlstedt-Brown says that strangers, not Kroger security, broke up the fight, and she suffered a broken nose.
“It’s hard for us because we all feel like, well, what if we would have been there? It makes you feel helpless,” Ahlstedt-Brown’s husband, Edward, explained. “It was terrible for them and for me to have their mom come home in that condition.”
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Ahlstedt-Brown says she has had nightmares since the attack and is concerned that race may have played a role in the incident, although her husband is black and her children are biracial.
“I could have been killed, but I know how to protect myself,” she said, expressing fear that the attack could happen to someone else if the suspects aren’t apprehended. “I mean, I’m a strong person … It doesn’t mean everybody is this strong.”
Louisville police said they are investigating the incident and said the courts will have to decide whether or not hate crime charges are appropriate.
“We’re gonna collect all the evidence, present it in court, and they will decide,” a Louisville Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said. “A hate crime is an enhancement, in this case, it’s an assault is where we are at at this time. The courts will eventually decide that.”
