With that, community activist Tony Herbert paid a visit to the makeshift memorial honoring Warner at Ocean Towers in Coney Island and hit record on his cell phone.
“Taking a look at a sight that’s all too common for us,” Herbert said on the clip he posted to Facebook Tuesday, reacting to the candles and messages of condolence. He soon added: “A 17-year-old girl was attacked by people that look just like her — you know, ‘Black lives matter.’”
Herbert also expressed frustration that only one person had been arrested and called on others responsible to turn themselves in to police — or for those who know them to do so.
Warner was walking with her 11-year-old brother to a store when a group of teens approached, made a remark and then attacked her, Lissette Pizarro, a family friend, told the New York Daily News. Warner was in a coma after Friday’s attack and was declared brain dead Sunday, prosecutors told the paper.