Teen girl brutally beaten by Venice Beach skater in brawl

Description: Teen girl brutally beaten by Venice Beach skater in brawl. These skaters are haters. One of two attackers sought by the Los Angeles Police Department smacked a 16-year-old girl in the back of the head with a skateboard as a group of punks near the Venice Beach Skate Park delivered a beatdown against Brooklyn Smith and her boyfriend Toyon Carlson on Thursday night, KTLA-TV reported. An eyewitness filmed the one-sided melee and posted the disturbing video online, according to KCAL-TV. The grainy video of the 8:30 p.m. incident shows the direct hit of the skateboard to the back of Smith’s head, sending her sprawling on the ground. “F--k that b---h!” a voice yells out on the tape. “Go back home!” someone yells at her. The 54-second cell phone clip shows the male assailant dragging the girl to her feet and holding her so another skater can punch her to the ground. They then start kicking the defenseless girl while she wails in agony. The fracas started because the violent youths accused Smith of visiting a part of the city that she had been warned to avoid after a fight last month, she told KTLA. “Before we could even say anything, they was like, ‘That’s her! That’s her!’” she told the TV station. “They just came out of nowhere on skateboards.” Both Smith and her boyfriend escaped life-threatening injuries after bystanders, including a woman who sprawled over her to protect her, came to their aid, LAist reported. Doctors stapled a 4-inch cut on her head after the beating and gave Carlson, who had a tooth knocked out, nine stitches on his head and lips, the pair told KTLA. Police officers responded at roughly 9 p.m. Thursday to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon at Speedway and Windward Ave., LAPD public information officer Drake Madison told the Daily News. No suspects have been arrested as of Saturday night, but the as-yet unidentified assailants are two African-American males in their late 20s, Madison noted. Detectives in the department's Pacific office are hopeful that the victims, including a third male victim also injured in the fight, can help them track down their attackers, he said. “There were no life-threatening injuries in this,” Madison said, noting that the video captured one of the fights that are an all-too-common occurrence in the area. “It looks like it was just a brawl in a skatepark.” But Smith told KTLA that she thought she could have been killed if the woman hadn’t shielded her. “If it wasn’t for her, Lord knows what they would be doing to me,” she said.

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