Police in Madison, Wisconsin, launch a hate crime investigation after a biracial African American woman says a group of white men doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire.
Burn marks on Althea Bernstein's face after she was allegedly sprayed with lighter fluid and set on fire.Family spokesman Michael Johnson, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County, said Bernstein was driving to a friend's house when the men started yelling the N-word and then attacked her while she was at a red light.
“She’s experiencing trauma right now but, for what happened to her, she’s doing better," he said, calling her a strong young woman.released through Johnson, they said that they are “saddened by what happened to Althea and the unprovoked attack on her body."
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