Posted on 09/18/2009 12:45:13 AM PDT by Route797
BELLEVILLE, IL (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - Parents in the Belleville School district descended upon the school board meeting Wednesday looking for answers. They want to know why two students beat a third kid on a school bus bound for Belleville West High School Monday, and they want to know what the district is doing to prevent it from happening again.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox2now.com ...
Four minutes after the first attack, a second boy began punching the same victim. That is when Raines stepped in. He came from his seat a few rows back and physically held the attacker back. Twice.
"I was like just chill out, chill out, chill out," he says. "I was like I don't know why you're messing with the dude because you know he's not going to do anything back. I was like quit. You have no reason to keep attacking him, so we need to chill out."
It's nice to know that there was one young man who stood up and did the right thing. Maybe he didn't react as forcefully as he could have, and maybe he could have acted sooner, but it's easy for an adult, from the safety of his keyboard, to be critical of the actions of a teenager in such a situation. Steve Raines is still a hero in my book. I hope his good deed is not unrewarded.
Other than that this story is disturbing in the extreme. What is our nation coming to?
“What is our nation coming to? “
A socialist heaven, nirvana even.
Is this real or just clean up testimony?
I deal with public schools...it’s hard to tell.
I have an answer. The bus driver was afraid to stop the beating for fear of being sued by one or both of the thugs’ parents.
Now let's all go shout at Goldstein for two minuets.
Video says 4 mothers showed up to question the school board. Wow, the whole community is up in arms! Kudos to the moms that did show up. Father of one of the beaters is making excuses for his thug. Disgusting. At the end of this the perps will be the victims.
What a wimp.
“The bus driver was afraid to stop the beating for fear of being sued by one or both of the thugs’ parents.”
Could be, its my guess he didn’t even notice what was happening. All he heard was yelling which is probably fairly common.
Ought to be a way to cast that whole family out of the system.
The bus driver was fired, supposedly for not breaking up the fight.
That doesn’t mean he knew they were beating this kid. All he knew was they were yelling.
Hopefully he’s keeping his eyes on the road and not watching the kids the whole time.
One of the boys who admits he was laughing is D’Vante Lott, who says he is now suspended from school for his actions, “Every kid in high school will laugh. If you see a fight, every kid will laugh,” he says. “It's like adrenaline. We laugh when we see a kid getting beaten up.”
Lott's mother, Shenico Greer, says she was disgusted by what happened to the victim. She says she does not condone her son's laughter, but believes he should not be suspended.
“Everybody on that bus was mostly laughing and standing up,” she says. “I was disgusted. I had a long talk with him. Clearly it was wrong.”
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Monday afternoon Belleville Police said they suspected the attack was racially motivated, the victim is white. The suspects are 14 and 15 year old African American boys. Tuesday, police did not return repeated phone calls from Fox 2 but they told Belleville News Democrat reporters race was not a factor. They said it was a case of bullying.
A post-racial one, at that.
What's your problem with this?
“They said it was a case of bullying. “
Yes, bullying on account of race.
Ummm...it says the driver could be heard over the radio reporting a fight. I don't know how much clearer it can get.
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Well that's just a sublime and beautiful image.
Not a hate crime. Oh those love crimes.
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