23-Year-Old Woman Beaten To Death After Defending Teen Girls From Harassment

[boston bean]

Thousands of German citizens are mourning a 23-year-old student who was murdered for sticking up for two teenage girls getting sexually harassed by a group of men. Silent vigils have spread across the country, and the president is considering awarding the young woman a posthumous medal of honor.

Earlier this month, Tuğçe Albayrak heard the screams of two girls being harassed in a McDonald’s bathroom in the city of Offenbach. She confronted their attackers, allowing the teens to escape the situation. But later, in the parking lot of the fast food restaurant, the same men attacked her and allegedly beat her with a baseball bat — an assault that was captured on grainy video footage.

Albayrak suffered a traumatic brain injury from the blows to her head, and has been in a coma for the past two weeks. After doctors told her parents that she would never recover from her injuries, they chose to take her off of life support on Friday. It was her 23rd birthday.

Since Albayrak first fell into a coma, supporters have been holding vigils for her at the Offenbach hospital where she has been treated. On Friday, after the news that she had died, the crowd outside the hospital swelled to 1,500 people. Additional candlelight memorials were held in Berlin on Sunday. And 100,000 people have signed a petition urging Germany’s president, Joachim Gauck, to posthumously honor the young woman for her courage.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/12/01/3597677/german-vigils-beaten-harassers/

[chervilant]

1. Did they find the monsters who

murdered her?

[boston bean]

5. they have a man in custody... video is here

and more info

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tue-albayrak-death-killer-caught-4730486

[geek tragedy]

2. reminder that street harassment is a safety issue not compliments or appreciation nt

[Feral Child]

3. Horrifying story.

Brave young woman.

[marble falls]

4. I pray I have her courage if it ever comes to that.

[ismnotwasm]

6. God that's messed up

Also, not surprising I'm sad to say

[boston bean]

7. yeah further down in the article

which I couldn't post due to the 4 paragraph rule, or risk a hide.... It outline 3 or so more cases in the US where people have been beaten for speaking out against street harassment.

[Frustratedlady]

8. There were plenty of men standing around. Why didn't they help her?

What a beautiful woman.


These horrid stories are coming from all over the world.


I can't get the girl's story that was on Rev. Al's show, last night, out of my mind. It had to do with the rape in Virginia or W. Virginia at a university. What a horrible 3 hours or more that poor girl went through. She is probably ruined for life and the students run free.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. Reminds me of the transgender attack in the Baltimore McDonald's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_of_Chrissy_Lee_Polis

Standing around and laughing, then urging the attackers to leave before the cops arrive is something I can't wrap my brain around.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. "grainy video footage"

McDonald's can afford HD cameras.

[Quantess]

11. Horrific.

K & R