Althea Bernstein is an 18-year-old bi-racial woman from Madison,
Wisconsin, who says a white man threw liquid and a flaming lighter at her while she was sitting in a car at a local intersection, burning her face.
“The victim believes she was driving on W. Gorham St. when she stopped for a red light at State St.,”
Madison police wrote in a news release. “Her driver’s side window was down and she heard someone yell out a racial epithet. She looked and saw four men, all white. She says one used a spray bottle to deploy a liquid on her face and neck, and then threw a flaming lighter at her, causing the liquid to ignite.”