Sounds like the school has a zero tolerance policy. (sarcasm) The kid saw something, he said something, and he got the crap beat out of him.
When was the last time we had a story about three white kids beating up a black kid? It just doesn't happen anymore. We are not the racists, but because of our self imposed collective guilt we've looked the other way at black on white hate crimes.
Dr MLK never had a dream like this, did he, Jesse?