attacked by a mob inside her own home says that police officers who responded to her home were “belligerent and unsympathetic” and trivialized injuries she suffered during the attack.Kendall Stephens, the victim, recently spoke with the Human Rights Campaign about her experience.
Stephens, who had just started classes at Temple University, said in the interview that she was in her bedroom studying when she hear what sounded like fighting outside the front door.
Outside, a group of people were engaged in an altercation, and, when one of Stephens’s goddaughters looked outside, one of the people involved in the fight cursed her out.Stephens then went outside to ask the crowd to disperse.