受欺负的男孩14岁,刚刚升入高中,同是亚裔的女孩高中4年级学生让那群女孩停止,结果被群殴。
这些学生不得不乘地铁往返从学校到家的路程
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The mother of a victim spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News as Philadelphia police announce expected charges of ethnic intimidation after a disturbing, violent assault was caught on camera. The attack is expected to be top of mind for many at Thursday night’s school board meeting at the School District of Philadelphia headquarters.
The mother is heartbroken and furious over the attack of her 14-year-old son. She believes the attack was racially motivated.
Name-called and punched.
Cellphone video shows a freshman Central High School student, who is of Asian descent, being attacked on the Broad Street Line subway while heading home from school Wednesday afternoon near Erie Station.
The video then shows a senior Central High School student, who’s also of Asian descent, trying to intervene, but she is thrown to the floor and then kicked and stomped on.
Her uncle talked exclusively to Eyewitness News, saying she wanted to protect the younger student.
“Stood up for him, helping the four Asian boys,” Mike Lu said. “Saying ‘stop it.'”
A source tells Eyewitness News some of the attackers are from a charter school. A source also says the parent of one of the attackers came forward to police after seeing the video.
The freshman boy’s mother also talked Eyewitness News. Chinese is her first language, so her friend, Jack Chao, translated.
We are the city of love, we are not the city of hate, and her kid didn’t do anything wrong, and her kid didn’t even know the girls,” Chao said.
The boy’s mother said it was “discrimination,” Chao said.
SEPTA police agree and say four girls ages 13 to 16 have been identified as the suspects in the attack. Police now expect to charge them with ethnic intimidation.