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Philadelphia activist assaulted while headed to community event, she says [Video]

PHILADELPHIAA woman is speaking out after she says she was attacked by a group of people while she was on her way to a community event in Philadelphia.

FOX 29 has obtained surveillance video of the incident.

“They’re robbing me. They are robbing me,” screamed a woman heard on security camera footage as three people move toward her while she screams for help.

The victim says two people took turns pepper spraying her while another held up a cellphone.

“The guys and the girls were like yeah, yeah, you’re gonna give it up, trying to hit me, then they were trying to mace me, trying to assault me and I was holding my own,” said Taleah Taylor.

Taylor is a community activist who says it happened Saturday around noon when she got off the bus at 33rd and Susquehanna headed to a community event in the park.

She believes she was targeted after posting on social media.

“I put …

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