Teen Talent Show Gets Ugly: Brooklyn Girl Viciously Beaten By Classmates

Victim Shacara McLaurin (left), and accused beater Aaliyah Smith

Last year, nine Massachusetts teens were hit with a variety of felony charges after they cyber-bullied a girl who committed suicide. But when NYC teens want to bully each other, they skip the computer and go straight for the padlock inside a sock. Five Brooklyn high school girls are accused of beating up a fellow classmate in a Glee-Gone-Wrong attack: "I wasn't able to open my jaw. I wasn't able to talk. I wasn't able to sing," said 17-year-old victim Shacara McLaurin.

McLaurin claims that one of the girls wanted to hurt her "because I sang better than her...It was jealousy. It was all due to the talent show." According to her mother, McLaurin received an ominous Facebook message the day before the attack saying, "they were going to get her and hurt her so she wouldn't ever be able to sing again." McLaurin was attacked by the five girls, who go to Brooklyn Academy High School and Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory School, outside the home of her voice coach.

One witness saw them beating her with padlock inside a sock: "I could see them hitting her and hitting her and hitting her with something. She started out on the stoop, and you could tell she didn't want to fight, but she came down, and they fought with everybody hyping it up. She was bleeding," said Nikia Eddy, who watched the melee from her apartment window. One of the suspects allegedly yelled, "Yo, b---h. I got a lock," at McLaurin, too.

McLaurin was left with six stitches near her left ear, a deep gash on her face and a bruised jaw; a friend who was with her, and tried to help her, was also beaten up. The five girls, Aaliyah Smith,16; Decory Fletcher, 16; Ashanti Garner, 17; Brittany Williams, 17; and Chazmia Morrison, 17; have been charged with felony assault, menacing, weapons possession and harassment. At least one of them, Morrison, has admitted to being involved in the fight: "I did fight that day, but nothing was planned. There was a padlock involved."

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By Ben Yakas in News on April 15, 2011 12:19 PM

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OvaltineJenkins

Arrest all minority babies BEFORE they become criminals.

babyfacethedog1

Sachara was the one that initiated the fight , and wound up getting her ass whupped. Now she and her parents are going to the media with that sad story of being victimized. Let the truth prevail. The alleged victim was the Perpretrator. Thank God the victim had a Combination lock on her . Now the next time Sachara waits after school to beat up someone, she will think twice

hotguy

Well 5 Negroes. What else can you expect?
And oh ja. To those who say. "oh whites do the gang shit all the time". "oh you're just Being racist. ". Oh
Well I say kiss my ass!!
This is a tough part of town!
Hell even these females look half gorilla or male!
And the Sad part with all this killing and robbing and stealing and gang banging they are just making blacks look even worse!
The sadder thing!
These kids are either from Jamaica or Haiti or their parents came from there where violence is the norm!
Hey kids grow up. Get a life and get out of the ghetto! You can do it!!
Travel the world! Don't be so small minded and petty

HJaySimpson

I love black girls, but I hate bitches...

and those are bitches...

theevilerone

5 on 1 and with a padlock in a sock? They were intent on doing some damage to that poor girl. Sick.

chud_hunter

Race is irrelevant. But, if those were suburban white girls, they would have more likely just induced an eating disorder and massive inferiority complex that could never be mitigated until the swift eventuality of suicide. A far worse fate as far as I'm concerned. The human race as a whole is retarded and most people choose perpetuate their stereotypes (good or bad). As soon as we stop caring about how our shit smells, only then can we move past many of our xenophobic and myopic views of race and culture.

chud_hunter

They probably thought they were auditioning for 'bad girls club.'

Al Davis

White people love to spit racism when the suspect(s) are black. Savages, skin them, etc. Makes me sick.

Guest

If the girls had been white, they'd still be savages.

Al Davis

White people love to spit racism when the suspect(s) are black. Savages, skin them, etc. Makes me sick.

randomtransplant

Psst. Lord of the Flies was written by a white guy.

"buncha savages in this town" was a multi-movie trademark line written by a white director spoken by white actors directing it at other whites.

Thompson & Wolfe & O Rourke frequently employed the term too.

Jay Geary

Calling these kids savages isn't racist; it's the truth. And it doesn't matter that they're black. If this were a case of 5 white girls beating up another white girl, they'd still be savages.

Ross Bennett Brown

The quote is priceless:

"I did fight that day, but nothing was planned. There was a padlock involved."

ohgodkillmenow

Ah, the value of public edumacation!

Guest

Yes minorities, please do continue to ruin things for those of us who don't choose to behave like animals.

Imbeciles.

nomadnewyork

Yeah, like this one: http://www2.tbo.com/content/20....

nomadnewyork

White people making all white people look bad.

bob

oh yeah, its only minorities that behave this way. smh

virgilstarkwell

said it before - name a kid Aaliyah, Decory, Ashanti, or Chazmia and you pretty much guarantee they'll end up in the Post.... usually with the word 'savage', or 'beating' somewhere close by.