Gang Beating and Humiliating a Woman Caught on Tape
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Earlier this month, the victim was beaten, forced to strip, and robbed of her clothes. She was forced to walk home naked. Gang members barked and yelled, as the victim begged to be left alone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police say Destiny Rico is the woman in the video wearing the red shirt. What appears to be the same shirt she had on when she was arrested.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get out of my face!</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She was not happy when she was hauled away to jail.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get out of here</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This defendant is going to be in a heap of trouble.</s>PINSKY: I`m back with Sam, Vanessa, Leeann and Loni. This girl`s street name is Baby Dreamer. She`s accused of stripping another woman naked and beating her and stealing her clothing. A 14-year- old boy recorded the attack on his tablet while dozens of people watched and did not intervene. Police learned of this when the young man, 14-year- old posted the video on Facebook. Twenty people, Sam, saw what happened. No one reported it.</s>SCHACHER: Well, I`m not surprised that witnesses didn`t report it, Dr. Drew, because this is connected to gang activity.</s>PINSKY: Is it?</s>SCHACHER: Yes, it is. I forget the gang`s name.</s>PINSKY: Bulldogs.</s>SCHACHER: I think it`s called something Bulldogs. That`s why they bark. Hey, I`ve seen "First 48", snitches end up in ditches, and that`s why these people feared gang retaliation.</s>PINSKY: Vanessa, intimidation, gang intimidation, you`re laughing at Sam.</s>BARNETT: You know, snitches get stitches, they end up in ditches, a lot of things happen when you talk. But I will say --</s>PINSKY: All those rhymes sound like the Mickey Mouse Club or something.</s>BARNETT: It could be gang intimidation or the fact that this girl may not be the victim we think she is. A lot of times gang members will jump people into the gang, a lot of times. They are beating up on --</s>PINSKY: So, she could be an initiation procedure?</s>BARNETT: It could be a initiation, she could be part of a rival gang, and they were trying to shut her up or use her as an example. That`s why they recorded it, put it on Facebook, let the rival gangs know, we ain`t nothing to mess with. There could be multiple reasons why no one reported it. You don`t show up to a fight with a table let, just on hand. Like you can`t even put a tablet in your pocket. So he came to record this for a purpose, and I think it`s to send a warning sign.</s>PINSKY: Interesting. Loni, you agree with that? And, by the way, not just a table, but a 14- year-old with a tablet, you wouldn`t bring a 14-year-old around a fight, would you? I don`t know.</s>COOMBS: Well, gang members, they recruit very, very young. If this was gang initiation or gang activity. Look, gang intimidation is very real and dangerous. I had witnesses in my criminal cases who would rather risk being thrown in jail by the system or have a warrant out for their arrest than come in and testify against a gang member. Those were gang members and non-gang members because they knew how threatening and intimidating and violent the gangs were. So, it could be that why no one wanted to speak up. It could be because this was part of a gang initiation or rival gangs. The people in that neighborhood, wherever this is, are aware of what`s going on and aware of what these gangs are capable of. So, you know, all of them are possible theories. I`m sure it will shake out when this case is taken to court, but the fact that they`re stripping this girl down, that has a very personal intimidation, humiliation message. Whether it`s we`re showing our strength to your gang or whether you want to be part of us, then you`ll have to come and subject yourself and show you`re being to do what it takes to be part of us.</s>PINSKY: Leeann?</s>TWEEDEN: You know, there`s so many things wrong with this case, Dr. Drew. But the one thing I go back to is parenting. I mean, where was this girl`s parents? Where does she --</s>PINSKY: Parents could be in a gang, too.</s>TWEEDEN: Well, possibly. But I mean --</s>PINSKY: No?</s>TWEEDEN: -- really, we have children to parent and teach them from right and wrong. And this girl is going to another girl to humiliate her and strip her naked, whether it`s initiation or whether it was a rival member. I mean, it`s just completely wrong. Now, all I`m going to say is, whatever it wrongs, keep posting these videos online, because you know what? You`re going to get caught. That girl had such a bad attitude. She wanted the cameras to get out of her face and I`m just laughing all the way. I hope the judge teaches her a lesson.</s>PINSKY: You can laugh, Vanessa, you`re laughing at me what I said.</s>BARNETT: You said her parents might have been in a gang.</s>PINSKY: Right?</s>BARNETT: We have legacy members and I didn`t really equate to maybe gang members have legacy members? I didn`t even think of it that way, but it could be a possibility. I think, I mean, it is sad, I agree with Leeann, but this girl, she deserves to be in jail, because at least there don`t you get a change in clothes? This chick with the same red shirt, for like days at a time --</s>BARNETT: She`ll get a change of clothes.</s>PINSKY: Sam?</s>SCHACHER: This wasn`t her first time being thrown in a police car. She has been in jail so many times. In fact, she just got released due to overcrowding. She should probably in jail for was it for the overcrowding.</s>PINSKY: Don`t we have that data? I`ll read you her rap sheet. Here it is. Take a look at it. Earlier this year, she was convicted of burglary, auto theft, receiving stolen property sentenced to 16 months in jail, served two months in overcrowding because of overcrowding. Leeann, back, here is our criminal system -- crime pays.</s>TWEEDEN: Right. And, obviously, and, look, she`s a cute girl. You look at her --</s>PINSKY: Oh, OK.</s>TWEEDEN: She gets leniency for that.</s>PINSKY: Really?</s>TWEEDEN: Look at all the teachers that abuse their students. If they`re cute women, it seems like they get off easier. But I think, you know, hopefully, this time, the judge --</s>PINSKY: Leeann, I got to interrupt you, because Loni just bristled on the screen. Go ahead, Loni.</s>COOMBS: She wasn`t let out early from jail because she`s cute. It was because they go to the nonviolent offenses first when they`re letting people out. While she was convicted up there, while she had a serious sentence, she got out early because it was a nonviolent --</s>TWEEDEN: Well, this time it`s violent.</s>PINSKY: Yeah.</s>HO: Violent, and there`s gang attachments.</s>TWEEDEN: Right.</s>HO: So those things will hopefully keep her in this time.</s>PINSKY: All right.</s>PINSKY: Let`s bring in the behavior bureau in here and she was - she was not that cute?</s>TWEEDEN: Not that cute. I`m just saying.</s>PINSKY: Just saying.</s>BARNETT: That was the extra ...</s>PINSKY: After the behavior bureau, we will talk about a college offering lectures with titles such as sexy momma and you see all the stuff in their flyer. "How to be a gentleman and get laid." It`s a good stuff. And it`s supposed to be a symposium or a week to acknowledge and educate about sexual violence against women. How does that work? Back after this.