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By Matt PetrilloClick here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA KYW The young woman who was brutally beaten as a group of Asian American students were attacked aboard a SEPTA train earlier this month is speaking for the first time since the assault. The 18-year-old Central High School student spoke outside the adidas samba Municipal Services Building in Center City Tuesday afternoon, where people rallied demanding justice, safety and an end to violence.Christina Lu spoke to the crowd for several minutes. She recalled being kicked and stomped on in what officials called a racially-motivated attack on a SEPTA subway ride as she headed home from school earlier this month. In a one-on-one with Eyewitness News, Lu said she has a message for her attackers.Pounding the pavement and demanding they want justice, dozens of people marched from the Municipal Services Building near City Hall and up North Broad Street to school district nike dunk headquarters in Spring Garden Tuesday, demanding safety for students and rallying in support of Lu. Many held signs that say, Stop school bullying. No one should live in fear, Lu said. Lu made her first public comments since the horrifying moments she was kicked and stomped on a SEPTA subway train while heading home from school earlier this month. The violent assault, which was caught on camera, happened on a train near the Erie station around 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 17.Cellphone video shows a freshman Central High School adidas samba student, who is of Asian Ngas Rare footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
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