A 12-year-old Brooklyn girl and her mother are speaking out after police say the child was attacked by a group of girls. <\/p>\n
The incident happened on June 14 on West 27th Street near Surf Ave in Coney Island. <\/p>\n
Kamyra Ingram\u2019s family said a cellphone video was sent to them that showed the group pulling her hair, then punching and kicking her in the head and back. <\/p>\n
Ingram said she was at a nearby playground when the group approached her and asked if she wanted to fight one of them. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re just pressuring me to fight her, and I\u2019m like, \u2018No,\u2019\u201d said Ingram. \u201cI\u2019m trying to walk away from the situation.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ingram told News 12 that the group followed her out of the park and into the street. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was just hoping that I could just walk away and get home,\u201d said Ingram. <\/p>\n
The victim said she only knew one of the girls, who goes to the same school. <\/p>\n
Police told News 12 that they\u2019re searching for four girls who they believe are between the ages of 10 and 12. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the girls didn\u2019t like me because of how I look,\u201d said Ingram. <\/p>\n
\u201c[My daughter] said she don\u2019t like her because of how she looks and because of her skin,\u201d said Lateefa Coleman, the victim\u2019s mother. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018You are beautiful.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Coleman said she can\u2019t sleep after the attack. The incident appeared to stem from an old text message exchange. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to understand that what they did was not right,\u201d said Coleman. \u201cIf it was someone else, they could\u2019ve got hurt.\u201d <\/p>\n
The family said the victim was taken to a local hospital and suffered from headaches. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just happy that she didn\u2019t get hurt severely, like stabbed up and stuff like that, because these kids are horrible these days,\u201d said Coleman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old Brooklyn girl and her mother are speaking out after police say the child was attacked by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-274562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}