A Belleville West High School student was beaten aboard a bus on the way to school Monday, and a police spokesman said the beating could be racially motivated.
The 17-year-old victim was white and the teen assailants were black. Police released a video of the beating, which shows the victim being punched repeatedly while other students on the bus gather to watch, some cheering. It doesn’t appear that the victim did anything to provoke an attack and tried only to defend himself. Police said it all unfolded in a five-minute span.
The victim was trying to find a seat and was told by two students he could not sit next to them, police said. When he did sit down, one teen tried to push him out of his seat then began grabbing the victim’s neck and punching him in the face.
The victim eventually returned to his seat, but another student began taunting him a few minutes later. The victim was then struck in the face.
It was unclear what, if anything, the bus driver did to stop the attack. Students intervened to help the victim both times.
“In my estimation, it’s racially motivated,” said Capt. Don Sax of the Belleville Police Department. He said one reason he had formed this opinion was that many of the students, most of whom were black, yelled their support for the beating.
“There was absolutely no justification for the beating either time,” Sax said.
Two teens were taken into custody; authorities will apply for charges today. Both students have been suspended, said Superintendent Greg Moats.
He also said there had been no racial problems at the school and said that he wanted to talk further with police to determine why they believe race could have been a motivator in the fight. He also said the school will do everything possible to make sure students are safe, but he wouldn’t elaborate.
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You know, EVERY time this sort of thing happens and it goes ignored and unpunished, it drives young white kids straight into the open arms of white separatist groups. These liberals who make excuses for this are practically guaranteeing that there WILL be an entire generation of white kids who will grow up with a seething resentment and hatred in their hearts for not only the blacks who commit this, but also for those who condone and support it- AND for the PC crowd and their dogma of “tolerance” and “diversity” as well. And the time will come when those same kids grow up to be the next leaders in politics, industry, law enforcement, etc. and exact their revenge in a multitude of ways against those whom their experiences teach them to hate regardless of how much indoctrination the education system tries to instill into their heads about “equal rights” and “social justice”. THIS is how you breed hate, and also how you wind up with kids who eventually snap and go on shooting sprees in their schools.
But to DARE to complain about the black kids in this video acting the way they do; THAT would be “racist”… :roll: Obama’s preacher’s comment about the “chickens coming home to roost” might just wind up applying to his OWN “flock” when all is said and done.
I agree with Seaman Wadd. It’s sad, but true. I totally agree had this been a bus full of whites attacking a black kid, it would be top news all over the country, and would be followed up on for weeks, or even months to come. Jesse and Sharpton would be all over it, but where are they now? They are too much the racists themselves to speak out against this. I’m not a racist, and really wish everyone would get along. This type of thing, whether white on black, black on white, or otherwise is just wrong. Parents need to teach their kids better than this.
If this had been a bus full of whites denying a seat to a black, then severely beating him while others cheered, every news channel in the USA would be flooded with finger pointing racism claims. Hate charges would be filed in 5 minutes. Al & Jesse would be marching, and MOSTLY POLITICALLY CORRECT WHITES would be screaming for justice. But sorry, the victim is white, so no hate crimes, no marching, and most whites are silent. Even Bill Oreilly minimized it. So much for looking out for us Bill.