Horrifying moment man tries to abduct a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint - before incredible act of bravery

A teenage woman was almost abducted astatine gunpoint successful wide daylight near an elementary school successful South Los Angeles connected Tuesday.

A man tried to kidnap a 15-year-old woman who managed to execute an unthinkable enactment of bravery arsenic she fought disconnected her attacker and was capable to make a getaway. 

The woman had been extracurricular nan Figueroa Street Elementary School astatine astir 3:30pm erstwhile nan man abruptly came up to her and put his manus astir her neck.

She was only capable to free herself aft hitting nan man pinch her cellphone and making a tally for it crossed nan road.

The attempted abduction was each caught connected surveillance camera from a adjacent shop.

The terrifying footage has been shared pinch nan LAPD who person made it nationalist successful nan dream of catching nan equipped suspect.

'I dream nan constabulary commencement to salary much attraction to nan community', section shop proprietor Foxy Chavez told ABC7. 

Neither nan teen aliases her mother wanted to beryllium identified, but some are grateful that she was capable to take sides herself, and conflict disconnected her attacker. 

Police opportunity they are treating nan incident arsenic an attempted kidnap.

Such opportunistic crimes person go each nan much communal because of lax bail betterment policies nether woke District Attorney George Gascón.

DA Gascón is simply a progressive charismatic who has been vocal successful his belief that nan criminal justness strategy needs to attraction much connected involution and rehabilitation, blasting 'tough connected crime' policies arsenic racist and a failure.

Gascón is moving for re-election this November pinch his opponent Nathan Hochman, a erstwhile national prosecutor, who has tried to capitalize connected nan seething anger complete crime and homelessness.

In his run ads, Hochman, a defense attorney, has vowed to alteration nan guidance of nan territory attorney's office, saying: 'It’s clip we had a DA who fights for victims, not criminals.'

Gascón was elected connected a criminal justness betterment level successful 2020, successful nan aftermath of George Floyd’s sidesplitting by police. He faced a callback effort wrong his first 100 days and a 2nd effort later, which some grounded to get connected nan ballot.

During his first term, Gascón instantly imposed his run agenda: not seeking nan decease penalty; not prosecuting juveniles arsenic adults; ending rate bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies; and nary longer filing enhancements triggering stiffer sentences for definite elements of crimes, repetition offenses aliases pack membership.

He was forced to rotation backmost immoderate of his biggest reforms early successful his tenure, specified arsenic initially ordering nan elimination of much than 100 enhancements and elevating a dislike crime from misdemeanor to a felony. 

The move infuriated victims’ advocates, and Gascón backpedaled, restoring enhancements successful cases involving children, older group and group targeted because of their race, ethnicity, intersexual predisposition aliases disability.

His challengers person pledged to reverse galore aliases astir each of his astir progressive policies, specified arsenic his early orders to destruct filing for sentencing enhancements.