WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT
Footage has been circulating on social media showing a 14-yr-old schoolboy being viciously beaten allegedly because he had previously worn a hat supporting President Donald Trump.
The incident, which occurred on a school bus on November 21st in Hamilton County, Florida was recorded on a mobile phone and emerged online on Thursday after the boy’s family retained the right to take possible legal action.
The boy, identified only as Tyler, was hospitalised following the incident after being left with head contusions.
The disturbing footage shows numerous students, some estimates say as many as five, launching an animalistic attack on the boy while deafening screeches and hollering can be heard from the cowardly attackers.
I am representing the victim in this video who is a student at Hamilton County, FL School District. This incident occurred on the school bus and is under investigation.https://t.co/POTpm4vu9K
— Foye B Walker PA (@FoyeWalkerPA) December 12, 2019
The brutalised boy’s mother took to Twitter to explain the incident after the footage went public to explain that her son was being targeted as he had previously worn a hat supporting the re-election of the U.S President Donald Trump.
Tyler’s mother said on Twitter:
“To be clear, my son bought his Trump 2020 hat with his own money at the flea market a few weeks ago,
He was proud to wear it. He wore it to School, but due to immediate bullying he put it away & didn’t wear it to school again, sadly the damage was already done & [he] was now a target,
From that point on he was steadily getting messed with. He was getting hit, tripped & verbally abused on the bus, but it all came to a head yesterday on his bus ride home,”
The distraught mother also shared a photo of the paperwork given to the family at the hospital detailing the boy’s injuries.
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