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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The pistillate shown being assaulted astatine the Big Fresno Fair successful a now-viral video says she wants justness - and wants the radical watching the video to larn from her concern the adjacent clip they are forced into a nationalist confrontation.
The fishy has not been arrested, and the Fresno Police Department is looking for her pursuing the incidental connected Sunday.
The victim, 18-year-old Kathrine Vang, says she and her friends were lasting successful enactment for a thrust astatine the just erstwhile a pistillate and her 2 children dilatory tried to marque their mode successful beforehand of the group.
"One of my friends and [the woman] were going backmost and distant conscionable scooting successful beforehand of each other," Vang said. "Until the woman yet turns astir and says thing precise assertive to my friend."
Vang describes herself arsenic precise soft-spoken, the youngest of her siblings, but she says the woman's aggression toward her person made her instrumentality a basal and face the woman.
"She said thing on the lines of, like, oh, you're getting excessively adjacent to maine small girl, you amended backmost disconnected oregon I'm going to get truly irritated," Vang said.
Vang says she and the pistillate started arguing backmost and distant - portion she kept switching up her story.
"Eventually, she turns to me, makes a comment, turns away, and astir apt [didn't] deliberation that I was going to support myself," Vang said.
"But I did. So I made a remark towards her, and past that's erstwhile she turned astir and she started strangling maine and told me, 'say it again to my face, support talking'."
Vang says the woman's children yet talked their parent down and pulled her disconnected of Vang, that's erstwhile Vang reached for her telephone to instrumentality a representation of the woman.
Vang says the pistillate slapped the telephone retired of her hand, breaking the beforehand of it.
Vang says the ordeal was surreal and traumatic - and not lone for her.
"Her girl apologized and her lad was like, man, I don't adjacent privation to get connected this thrust anymore," Vang said. "As an big and particularly if you're you're astatine the just with your kids, you automatically person the work of being a relation model."
After the assault, Vang says she told instrumentality enforcement astatine the just and tried to spell connected with the remainder of her nighttime contempt the distressing event.
"I inactive americium precise overmuch successful disbelief. Like, did it truly happen?" Vang said. "I've been having occupation sleeping. I consciousness similar that's conscionable due to the fact that I support perpetually reasoning astir it. What could I person done better? Like, wherefore did this hap to me?"
But Vang says she is definite she did the close happening by lasting up for herself. The video of the battle has received a batch of attraction connected societal media. Some of that attention, Vang says, has been antagonistic and unhelpful.
"I'm precise grateful for each the enactment that I'm getting online. I've seen a batch of like, hateful comments arsenic well," Vang said. "This video is not astir race. It's astir the information that erstwhile you get confronted, you don't edifice to violence."
Vang hopes the Fresno Police Department volition assistance bring closure to this incidental by uncovering the pistillate responsible.
