Todd had described her attacker as a tall, ' dark-skinned African-American ', who pressed a knife against her neck while she was using an ATM. She claimed that after she gave him $60, he noticed a McCain sticker on her car and proceeded to beat her before pinning her down and scratching a backwards 'B' for 'Barack' into her cheek with the knife. He then fled the scene, she said, though later she could not recall  which direction he fled to . He wanted to teach her a lesson, she said, and make her an Barack Obama supporter. "It’s not like her cheek was carved out ", a police spokeswoman said of the mutilation, referring to it as a 'scratch' or 'scrape'. Todd did not seek medical attention, instead leaving for a friend's apartment and calling police almost an hour after the time she said she had been attacked. Police Commander Larry Ross said Todd's story began to change with subsequent interviews. "She added other things to it that we didn’t have at first, that she didn’t tell the initial officer," he said. Todd had added that the alleged attacker had 'fondled' her in a follow-up interview, and later changed her story to say that she had been unconscious during the attack.
Todd had described her attacker as a tall, " dark-skinned African-American ," who pressed a knife against her neck while she was using an ATM. She claimed that after she gave him $60, he noticed a McCain sticker on her car and proceeded to beat her before pinning her down and scratching a backwards "B" for "Barack" into her cheek with the knife. He then fled the scene, she said, though later she could not recall to which direction he fled . He wanted to teach her a lesson, she said, and make her a Barack Obama supporter. "It’s not like her cheek was carved out ," a police spokeswoman said of the mutilation, referring to it as a "scratch" or "scrape." Todd did not seek medical attention, instead leaving for a friend's apartment and calling police almost an hour after the time she said she had been attacked. Police Commander Larry Ross said Todd's story began to change with subsequent interviews. "She added other things to it that we didn’t have at first, that she didn’t tell the initial officer," he said. Todd had added that the alleged attacker had "fondled" her in a follow-up interview, and later changed her story to say that she had been unconscious during the attack.
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