A few more like this and the bullies will stop.
If I was on the jury, I’d vote to acquit.
His real crime is in embarrassing the rulers.
I like my “dead blow” hammers. They don’t bounce when you smack someone in the forehead!
The problem with surrogate parenting, whether they be the government or public agencies, is that apparently they are immune from enabling child abuse in different form.
And they are always arrogant and unaccountable, and universally lacking in common sense.
I support this dad.
Jury nullification!
Or, sue the school district for failing to protect him.
Mr. Hurd’s mistake was doing it on a school bus where he was prolly videoed.
Wait till the bully is alone, then go to it.
Perhaps he didn’t need to abuse the bully. Most bullies are cowards with a big mouth. Sometime a verbal talking down to is all that’s needed.
I would simply tell the parents that if the kid doesn’t leave mine alone, I will deal with them when I get out of jail... and the parents too.
It is relevant that both children involved are “special.”
I though that is what big brothers were for
Both of these kids are special-ed... Looks like a case of low information voters doing low information things.
My dad would do things like that! :)
So there was no father whose @$$ should have been pounded into the pavement. What a surprise.
Barring that Mr. Hurd might have gone after the school superintendent or principal.
Back on the Rez, where I grew up, I have a friend who did so when his little girl was being hassled by a gang. Dragged the principal up over his desk and told him next time it was his arse on the line.
Of course Shanika's little piece of filth will beat many and kill a few more before he rots in jail. But it won't do anybody much good to be pounding on a child.
Now Mr. Hurd is off to jail and his son won't have a dad either.
Anyone else read the story?
“The incident was not caught on video. Both children attend a special education program at Wilson Elementary School in Richmond.”
Sorry but the other kid is special ed too. The father had to simply keep his son out for one day and go and see the principal. Explain to the principal i’m recording this meeting. I am lodging a complaint. If nothing is done i will make it my lifes work to see you out of work. Simple stuff like that.
I was always the biggest kid in my neighborhood
.but i was the one getting crap .
little kids figured out they could hit me and blame me and everybody else would believe them because they were small and I was big.
when i was 9 i had the neighbor kid walk up and hit me dead center in the chest as hard as he could and hurt itself he then goes and crying to his teenage brother and his brother came out and beat the crap outta me.
At school when I was 12 has a kid hit me in the head and broke his little finger..I got suspend for a day.
Kids are smart and know how to game the system....its play the “the victim” and you can get away with anything
A very good friend of mine was being picked on by an older kid when he was in elementary school. I believe he was 10 or 11 at the time. Now this was back in the 1940’s when kids who flunked got held back, sometimes more than once. The kid picking on him was much larger and much older (14 maybe).
My friend’s father went to the school, punched the kid in the face and told him to pick on someone his own size. My friend’s father was about the same size as the bully. Back in those days the only repercussion was that the bully stopped picking on my friend.
Assuming that the account is true, I would vote to acquit.
Fathers protect their kids.
Fighting back against an agressor is the right thing to do. If someone can’t, then a family member has the right to do it.
As kids we were taught that if you dish it out, you better be able to take it too.
Likewise...hand them back what they hand out.
One time we were going to town and forgot something, so my mom turned around and went back to the house.
When we got there, about 3 kids had gone into our house, took the cats kittens and were dipping them in the pool.
I watched my mother one by one, lift the little criminals up by one arm with a smart smack to the seat while their feet were dangling off the ground.
Any kid that went home crying and fessed up, then got it again by THEIR parent.
Thats how it was back then. Same in school.
If you got paddled by the teacher, you got paddled again when you went home.
Kids bully because they can get away with it.
As an aside: this is why most parents don’t let their kids ride the bus.