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This attack was at Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, the eight blocks of Main St. that were turned into a pedestrian mall in 1976. On one end of it there is an outdoor concert venue.

For anyone interested, this article has more details about the incident. . .

Charlottesville police chief orders internal review in mall attack case

Charlottesville police are conducting an internal audit of what they described as a “breakdown” in their response to a beating on the Downtown Mall, the department said Monday.
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Police Chief Timothy J. Longo reviewed a report on the case Monday morning and immediately assigned detectives to investigate the attack, police said. It took place at 1:40 a.m. Dec. 20, when three black men assaulted a man and a woman on the mall, according to the victims and police.

The man was knocked unconscious, lost a tooth and suffered a fractured ankle and several cracked ribs, while the woman suffered bruised ribs, a cut on her neck and injuries to an ear, police said. Authorities said they could not say whether they have identified suspects.
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“They didn’t want to rob us. They wanted to beat us. It was like it was enjoyable to them to beat us,” she said. “There was camaraderie to it.”
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Mall ambassadors – a group of part-time liaisons who help tourists navigate the mall and serve as lookouts for police – usually go off work by 11 p.m., and none would have been on duty when the attack happened, Roberts said.

In 2012, the City Council denied [police chief] Longo’s request for $1 million to add extra police to patrol the mall. Instead, officials added the force of mall ambassadors.

Daily Progress article