By Tamar Lapin
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n
A 24-year-old Rochester woman was pummeled by a group of vandals when she tried to stop them from looting a business over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Horrifying video shows about eight men armed with metal clubs and wooden two-by-fours smashing the window of a jewelry store on Saturday afternoon, as the woman comes out of the building with her husband to plead with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo away,\u201d she can be heard saying\u00a0in a clip posted online<\/a>. \u201cPeople live here!\u201d<\/p>\n The gang then turns on the couple, swinging the wooden planks and repeatedly punching the petite woman, knocking her to the ground.<\/p>\n Her husband can then be seen returning with a golf club and yelling \u201cYou get away from my wife\u201d as the attackers turn on him.<\/p>\n The woman, identified in local media as Madison Mavity, said she was just trying to protect Kim Dao Repairs, the shop she lives above, after having called 911.<\/p>\n \u201cI was just trying to help Kim Dao downstairs,\u201d Mavity\u00a0told Spectrum News<\/a>. \u201cThey were broken into and vandalized. We were helping fix their window when more people came and rebroke everything. I was just trying to get them away.\u201d<\/p>\n The couple went to the hospital to get checked out following the attack, with Mavity saying she suffered a concussion.<\/p>\n \u201cMy ears were ringing for a long time and [I] have huge bruise on the side of me,\u201d\u00a0she told WHAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mavity said she doesn\u2019t believe that the group was part of a Black Lives Matter protest taking place earlier in the day.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is just senseless violence,\u201d she said. \u201cI think we have to keep that in mind. I don\u2019t want to bring negative connotation to what the Black Lives Matter movement is trying to say, because I don\u2019t think that they were a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rochester Police Department is asking for help identifying the individuals in the video. Mavity didn\u2019t immediately return a call from The Post on Monday.<\/p>\n