OAKLAND — A woman has been arrested and charged with attacking another woman with a rubber mallet, robbing the victim of a cellphone and “contributing to the delinquency” of her two daughters who allegedly joined in the attack, court records show.
When she was arrested in the Oct. 13 incident, the 37-year-old woman claimed the victim had started the altercation by using racial slurs to refer to her and her two daughters, and by filming the family two blocks away from where the alleged attack took place.
According to police, the 37-year-old woman and her daughters followed the alleged victim into a cafe on the 1100 block of Oak Street, across the street from the Oakland Museum of California, hit her with the mallet, ripped out her hair and took her phone.
The phone was found in the 37-year-old woman’s possession, according to police. Authorities arrested her and one of her daughters, a 16-year-old girl allegedly seen swinging the mallet on cafe surveillance footage, according to court records. The daughter’s charging status is unknown because she’s a juvenile.
The assault and robbery charges are felonies, and the delinquency charges are misdemeanors. The woman was released from jail at an Oct. 17 court appearance and is next due in court on Nov. 19, records show. Her daughter was arrested on suspicion of battery, robbery, and accessory, authorities said.