In what is just the latest incident of violence by Somali refugees in the United States, a gang has been caught on attacking victims in a Lewiston, Maine, park.
Maine First Media reported witnesses said the attack began when one of the victims asked an attacker for a lighter for his cigarette.
One victim was hurt badly enough to be taken to a hospital, even though no charges were filed.
Main First Media said a dozen Somali youth "swarmed and attacked two local residents in Kennedy Park last Thursday evening. The Somali mob attacked around 7:45 pm, just as the sun was setting on this historic city park in the heart of Maine's second largest city."
The report said a local mother recorded the "as a mob of teens and children, boys and girls as young as nine years old, brandishing wooden bats and other objects, along with fists, feet and sheer numbers to attack the two non-Somali defenders.""At one point you can even here one of the hoodlums repeatedly daring the woman to, 'stop me, b--.'""Lewiston Mayor Shane Bouchard says these types of incidents are common at Kennedy Park, but points to Lewiston's low crime rate," the report continued."Kennedy Park is a large common space in the middle of some of the poorest census tracts in the Northeast," Bouchard told the agency. "When you have large, diverse groups of people in the same place you are bound to have incidents. Lewiston is no different in that respect than any other medium to large city, except that Lewiston's violent crime rate is one of the lowest in Maine."
Maine First said it was "far from the first incident of Somalian attacks at Kennedy Park."
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