Tilani Marshall Breaks Her Silence on Brutal Brooklyn McDonald's Fight [WATCH VIDEOS]: 17-Year-Old Says, "I Can't Graduate Anymore"

By Star Connor (s.connor@mstarsnews.com) | Mar 27, 2015 10:38 AM EDT

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Another fight and another city. MStars News has learned that one of the six teenage girls who participated in a brutal attack at a McDonald's in Brooklyn is finally speaking out after being charged for the fight. According to Inside Edition, 17-year-old Tilani Marshall was arrested along with five other high school girls after severely beating 15-year-old Arianna Taylor.

In a one-on-one interview with the news source, Marshall, along with her attorney Audrey Thomas, told her side of the story.

“I was scared. I was crying. I couldn't believe it," Marshall said. "I’d never been through something like that before. That was the first time I’d ever got arrested, been in handcuffs. I was embarrassed.”

The Inside Edition reporter asked, “Tilani, how has all this impacted your life?”

The 17-year-old replied, “It ruined my life a lot. I can’t graduate anymore. They suspended me for a year out of school. I was really looking forward to graduation, prom, then going to college. I can't do that anymore."

Tilani's mother, Carmen Cremona, reposted the video to Facebook, not knowing that her daughter was involved. She said she was shocked to learn that Tilani had been involved and arrested for the fight.

“I reposted the video and stated that ‘If this was my daughter I would have lost it.' Shortly after I posted, I got a phone call that she was in there. When I realized she was actually there and at that point I broke down and cried," the mother said.

Tilani was truthful with the reporter when asked, “Were you at McDonald's that day?”

“Yes, I was," the teenager stated.

When asked, “Did you participate in this fight?”

Her attorney chimed in and said: "She can’t answer that. It's an ongoing investigation.”

Tilani was also asked if this was a gang-related fight. She replied, “No, it was an unexpected fight.”

Tilani's attorney was asked why her client has been "accused of being in this fight?"

Thomas stated: "I think she is accused for the same reason the other girls have now been charged with robbery, gang assault, and assault in the first degree. She was accused because she was present, there was public outcry, there was outrage, and it appears what the police did is that they arrested the winners and the loser got the label of victim."

Tilani remains mute about her part in the fight, but if you take a look at the video, you can see her pulling girls off of the victim, but also throwing some punches.

It sounds like the fight involving 23-year-old Myriah Pointer, when she was beat up and almost killed by 3 women over a hamburger in Atlanta.

"The mere fact that Ms. Marshall is in the video doesn't mean that she is guilty," said forensic video analyst Connor McCourt. "Whether she threw punches in this video can be looked at by the authorities. It is very important to analyze the video frame by frame and take a look at the actual images of when punches are being thrown and is it Ms. Marshall doing the damage."

Tilani’s attorney thinks her client will be proven innocent after the video is studied.

“There is nothing in this video from what I've seen that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Tilani intended serious physical injury to that young lady, Ariana," the attorney claims.

"I am not a savage. I am just a regular teenager. A regular 17-year-old girl," the accused teen stated.

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