Posted on 03/27/2018 12:19:03 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A South Florida driver is hoping clear cellphone video will help police capture the women who chased her to a shopping plaza in Lauderdale Lakes and beat her with a bat.
Her face still bruised and her broken nose in bandages, 26-year-old Mikaela Barboza said the road rage attack went down on Thursday, when she accidentally cut off a woman while driving down U.S. 441.
The victim said that woman’s sister, who was driving a different car, saw what happened and began yelling at her.
“‘You don’t cut my sister off, that’s disrespectful,'” Barboza said, as she recreated the chain of events that led to the brutal attack.
Barboza said the sister of the woman she cut off continued to chase her while yelling derogatory remarks.
Fearing for her safety, the victim pulled into a strip mall off Oakland Park Boulevard to try and get away.
But Barboza said the woman she had cut off and her sister managed to find her.
“Her sister actually blocked me in, and the other sister blocked me from behind,” she said. “I had nowhere to go.”
Barboza then got out of her car and began recording the encounter on her cellphone.
“I just put my phone on record and got out, and that’s when it all started,” she said.
The footage captured one of the women walking toward Barboza while carrying a baseball bat in her right hand.
“I don’t give a [expletive]. I will [expletive] your [expletive] up,” one of the women could be heard saying on cellphone video.
She then yelled racial slurs and began bashing Barboza in the head.
“I thought this was it for me. I mean, I was just fighting for my life. After I got hit the first [time], I just grabbed her, and we started wrestling on the floor, so I got the bat away from her,” said Barboza.
It was then that, the victim said, the other woman became involved.
“While I’m wrestling with her, the other sister with the wooden bat just started hitting me in the back of the head,” said Barboza.
At this point, good Samaritans intervened. Cellphone video captured a man yanking the bat away from one of the women.
Barboza was rushed to the hospital with a bloody wound to the head and a broken nose.
“Five stitches on the top and two inside,” said Barboza as she showed 7News her head injuries. “I got seven staples in the back of my head from where the other sister was hitting me in the back.”
She is now counting her blessings while hoping authorities are able to track down her attackers.
“I’m just happy to be here; I’m happy to be alive and not brain dead or anything like that,” she said, “’cause I know it could have been a lot worse.”
Barboza is also thankful that someone decided to step in. “I just wanna say thank you so much for anyone who helped me that day,” she said.
Barboza has a young daughter and said she couldn’t believe that these two women could do this in front of a child, which could be seen watching in a car.
“I don’t see how somebody could have so much rage from just being cut off,” Barboza said. “I want to see justice. I want to see them at least go to jail and pay for what they did ’cause right now I’m suffering, but I hoping they’re gonna suffer too in the end because this is wrong. They could have killed me.”
The victim said she now has to see a specialist due to severely damaged cartilage in her nose.
7News reached out to the Broward Sheriff’s Office for comment, but all they said is that they are investigating the incident.
If you have any information on the sisters’ whereabouts, call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $3,000 reward.
So many blacks are full of hatred. That’s why they they behave like this. Such hatred is EVIL. we need to start seeing it for what it is.
Not when you see “Lauderhill” in the story.
I got to Ftld in 68 worked as a “Phone Man”. We saw it all, more than a taxi driver. Lauderhill was a neat little town peppered with middle-class retirees from the N.
Great place other than the fact that in was on the S border of the Hood which gradually crept N and took over.
Lauderhill now has the ranking of one of the most dangerous high crime areas of the US.
She comes at me like that and she will be on pavement, very likely dead.
Lauderdale Lakes/Lauderhill same place.
Ftld PD any one with info. Why is that necessary, video is enough for jail time
Best part of the story is knowing this evil hate filled animal is sweating how long it will take for one of her fellow Hood Rats to turn her in for the 3 G’s.
May even be one of her 10 kids
It was all about ‘respect’ apparently.
Teaching people to drive more respectfully, one baseball bat at a time
Well, maybe two
Those were some wild azz sistahs! But on the bright side it must have been some black guys or black women who rescued white gal Barboza from these female thugs on drugs.
Like Ms. Barboza said... I am glad she got away without any brain damage. The courts will prosecute this “Sistah Act” if the hapless Broward County Sheriffs can locate them...like at Walmart, the weave store or the nail salon.
That is true. The hood rat deserves some time in a cage.
Your pro’lly right it wont be hard either cause that stretch of US 441 in Broward is also Martin Luther King Blvd.
Many of us were happy when they labeled it that way as to give strangers a heads up about the DMZ
Happened Thursday. It’s now Tuesday and still no arrest. Even though the perp’s pic is available and has been on social media.
Based on her Facebook page, Mikaela Barboza is a Bernie Sanders supporter and a member of the group “Activists For A Progressive United States.” So it’s probable that even a beating like this will not encourage her to exercise her 2A rights.
If she doesn’t wanna carry, that’s her choice. What really bugs me is that the BSO has had days to find and arrest the perp and has yet to do it.
Why do I carry? Pictures paint a thousand words!
Lady tried that with me, there would be a report of a corpse holding a bat found in a parking lot.
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With holes in it.
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POP POP, drop the bat!
I agree completely, but progressives don't want us to carry either. And yeah, the cops are basically useless down there.
If the vic is pro gun control, she might be rethinking that position, especially since she had her kid in the car.
But not only has the BSO not found and arrested the perp, they’ve refused to respond to requests for info from some of the local media. That looks just swell.
“whites have no misconceptions about the race wars since they destroyed our cities half a century ago.”
I recall my dad’s instructions to me as he left the house for duty during the 67 Newark riot: you are in charge here and don’t let them take the house! (My dad had amassed a arsenal big enough to hold off a division).
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