A young woman who has volunteered for years to keep Oakland safe, fell victim to a brazen physical attack and carjacking by multiple men. The loss of her best friend's wedding dress in the trunk makes the incident all the more heartbreaking.
Video shows shattered glass covering the floors of the Oakland Post, the largest African American paper in NorCal, just hours after the robbery.
"Out of everything, the wedding dress was the one that I was sad about the most. Because it does not belong to me," she said, crestfallen.Just one day before the carjacking, Ms. Yu picked up her best friend's dream wedding gown they had searched for months to find. Her friend had tried on dozens and dozens of dresses until finding"the one."
When news of the carjacking was relayed to her friend, her friend broke down in tears, not just for her dress but for what happened to Ms. Yu.While Ms. Yu takes some time off from work to mentally heal, she is speaking out on behalf of the community she calls home.
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