Sickening footage captured the moment 10 high school students viciously beat a fellow student on a New York City bus in broad daylight, before claiming he deserved it because he was a “crazy man.”
The teenage mob was pictured in handcuffs on Monday, two days after the attack, in a Snapchat image captioned by a student: ‘(He) f****** deserved being a weirdo and he should have died. ‘
A video of the attack sparked outrage online and showed the victim cowering as he was unable to escape the hail of punches, kicks and blows from the other youths.
It later emerged that the teens attend the Mark Twain Intermediate School on Coney Island in New York City, which is supposedly for “gifted and talented” students, but just weeks earlier, a brutal beating of an 11-year-old girl in a had seen the bus.
Sickening footage captured the moment 10 high school students viciously beat a fellow student on a New York City bus in broad daylight
The teen cowered in fear and desperately covered his head, while other teens just watched and filmed it on their phones
In footage of the latest bus attack, students can be heard roaring with excitement as they beat up the teenager as he tried in vain to protect his head.
The boy gradually makes his way through the bus, enduring a series of punches before even taking a hit from a flying sneaker.
Numerous other teenagers can be seen filming the violence and deciding not to help. The bus reportedly contained only students and was taking them from their school in Coney Island via Brooklyn.
Two days after the incident, police were seen on Snapchat footage handcuffing several students.
The NYPD told DailyMail.com that no arrests were made at the school on Monday and said it is possible the incident was handled internally within the school.
The shocking Snapchat caption also called for police to ‘free them’ – a sentiment seemingly not shared by the millions of viewers of the footage on social media.
The NYC School Safety Commission, which advocates for more safety measures in New York schools, shared the footage and stated, “This is why we need safe hallways. We need police officers on buses, not just on trains.”
Viewers also criticized the students who reportedly attended a school for the “gifted and talented.”
“If this is happening there, imagine what happens in regular schools,” said one commenter.
The crowd reportedly attends the Mark Twain Intermediate School in New York City, which is supposedly for the ‘Gifted and Talented’
Just weeks before the bus attack, students laughed and filmed as the 11-year-old was approached from behind and knocked to the ground in front of shocked pedestrians at the same school
The incident comes after an 11-year-old girl was viciously beaten at the same school, sparking outrage after the bully allegedly returned despite the incident.
The shocking attack was also caught on film, with cheerful friends taking out their phones to capture the moment the attacker walked up to the 11-year-old before punching and repeatedly kicking her as she lay in the street.
Stylized videos celebrated the attack outside the Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted and Talented, with slow motion replays and laughing emojis adding to the humiliation.
But the attacker was only suspended from the Brooklyn school, while the victim has now been given a staff ‘bodyguard’ to escort her around the premises.
“Imagine knowing you can dislike someone, harass them, plan an attack, film it and spread the evidence,” the victim’s father said.