Bernie Garcia said a young man approached her at a gas station as she was buying fuel for her van and asked for money. When she told him she had spent all her spare change on gas, he tried to grab her purse.
“But I had it wrapped around my wrist twice,” Garcia said, and he was unable to pull it away.
She fought back, spraying his shirt with some gasoline. Both of them kept hold of the purse, and he pulled her to the ground and dragged her a short distance until another man confronted him.
“My son said, ‘Why didn’t you just give (the purse) up?’” Garcia said. “‘Hell no,’ I told him. That was my purse. I was fighting for what was mine.”
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