Posted on 04/02/2022 11:21:59 PM PDT by Morgana
The family of a high school track star who was sucker-punched during a race say they had wanted to press charges against his attacker but deputies had threatened to arrest their son if they'd done so.
Now, the family is considering filing a civil lawsuit against the other student and the track invitation event that hosted the race, their attorney says.
Shocking video of the attack during the Tohopekaliga Tiger Invitational in Kissimmee last Saturday captured the incident as a pack of runners coming down the track in the 1,600-meter race when a teen comes up from behind and punches the athlete in the lead in the back of the head.
The runner goes down and stays on the ground as the rest of the team run past. His family's attorney, Nathan Carter, revealed the teen suffered a concussion following the attack.
There was allegedly an altercation before the attack, where the victim had told the attacker to move out of his way. When he refused, during an earlier lap, the victim had pushed him, according to TMZ.
At the time, Osceola County Sheriff's Office claimed that the victim, who has not been identified, had not wanted to press charges, but his family have disputed that claim, with their attorney telling the outlet that their son would have been arrested for battery had they filed criminal charges.
'The family has read reports that the OCSD claims [my client] refused to press charges,' Carter said in a statement.
'This is false.'
'The family of the victim did want to press charges for this vicious attack and assault caught on video and witnessed by hundreds of people. The OCSD deputy told the family that if [my client] pressed charges then he would also be arrested for battery.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A “teen” comes up from behind..The photos in the story confirm what you might suspect.
they need a better lawyer....this was assualt and I can’t believe the wimpy track people letting that guy stand there and harass runners let alone slug one.....oh, well, I guess we know why they didn’t do anything....
This will soon be referred to as “Will Smith Syndrome”. Everyone will be very surprised that this kind of thing could happen, and wonder out loud what caused it.
The article explains why the runner did it.
If it’s true, it’s probably very exaggerated. Plus, there has been no proof via witnesses or video. I do expect ‘witnesses’ to come forward to protect the attacker very soon tho. Call me cynical, but it will take a lot for me to believe a witness. I’ll need video proof.
Yet another feral "teen" from the "dark" side.
I’d be suing the cops for denial of civil rights under color of law.
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It’s beginning to seem like if you are a minority, you can do no wrong, even if you shoplift, hit someone you feel offended you, make up fake hate crimes, etc. I hope this changes soon. If we continue to coddle bad behavior, we’ll get more of it.
The “teen” assaulted the white runner prior to the assault. The runner shoved the “teen” out of his path. The “teen” was “disaspekted” justifying the melanated teen violently assaulting a white person because muh reparations...
I am a racist for not bowing down to Melanated Americans. (big difference from African immigrants.)
We have a LOT of it today because we coddled it in decades past.
Just wait until all the miscreants that have experienced “Restorative Justice” come out of the school system.
A “teen” comes up from behind.
The first guy to push or the guy that was paying back the push?
Yup.
did you axe him if he was disaspekted?
Why was the race not ended and restarted due to the interference in the first place? Society is going to crumble if people continue to refuse to respect others and simple rules.
I understand the goal of the people behind these are to destroy Society I just don’t understand why they think that they will benefit. Who wants to live in an impoverished war torn country?
Melanated... Cool
Seriously tho. I completely agree.
“I’d be suing the cops for denial of civil rights under color of law.”
I’d be suing them under color of color.
Is this correct, the guy that sucker punched the runner was earlier standing on the track, getting in the way and did this on multiple laps of the race. The runner that got sucker punched push the kid out of the way.
Is this a case of the kid that did the sucker punch obstructing the runner earlier in the race and then also sucker punching him? Is that they way it went?
They call it knockout. Libs approach it as a misguided game.
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