Posted on 08/03/2013 7:19:16 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
GULFPORT - No charges will be pressed against the 64-year-old man who was driving a Pinellas County School Bus while a 13-year-old student was brutally attacked by three bigger teens on July 9.
The bus driver, John Moody, made a radio call for assistance when three 15-year-old boys kicked and stomped on a smaller 13-year-old boy, but the Gulfport Police Chief Robert Vincent questioned whether Moody did enough.
Investigators determined that before the fight on the bus, the victim had encountered the one of the older boys inside a school restroom at Lealman Intermediate School.
The suspect tried to sell the victim drugs. The 13-year-old reported the suspect to school officials, but at the end of the day, the victim and the suspect ended up riding home on the same school bus.
As the bus stopped at 20 th Avenue South and 51 st Street, three suspects attacked the victim, punching, kicking and stomping him simultaneously, at least 23 times. The incident was caught on camera and posted to YouTube.
The bus driver called for assistance, but did not physically intervene.
One of the suspects took the victim's money and all the suspects got off of the bus.
All three teens were eventually arrested and charged with battery, and one with robbery.
The police chief commented that the bus driver didn’t make any effort to check on the welfare of the child who was beaten. But a district spokesperson pointed out, a bus driver is only required to radio dispatch, and step in if they deem the situation safe.
The police department explored a child neglect charge for the bus driver, but prosecutors ultimately decided not to press charges against him.
The bus driver officially resigned July 15, a few days after the attack.
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Expect for the victim to be blamed.
Video of the attack is here:
Video shows vicious Pinellas school bus attack
http://www.wfla.com/story/22958589/new-surveillance-video-shows-vicious-bus-attack
The important thing is that the bus driver went home at the end of the day.
Ah, sharia Law
In addition to battery and robbery, shouldn’t one of the attackers also be charged with selling during? This is what started the whole mess in the first place.
Why haven’t the thugs been charges with a hate crime too?
The way the world is today, if the bus driver had intervened, he would now be facing charges of assualt and battery, for trying to restrain the “youth” who were carrying out the beating.
As a general rule, any school authority who physically touches a student in any way for any reason is charged with assault. And these kids know that,so they have no fear of anyone stopping them from doing anything.
As always, the MSM is carefully avoiding stirring up racial friction by not mentioning that the attacker/drug dealer is black and the victim is white. </SARC>
I hope the boy’s parents sue the school and the bus company to the max.
Well, in all fairness, the victim did attempt to get up out his seat on’em thugs.
Everyone know you don’t get up out yo seat.
I see three guilty feral black thugs beating a white boy - I don’t consider any of the three as suspects they are clearly guilty attackers and need to be in jail.
Gulfport, Florida not Gulfport, Mississippi.
“....MSM is carefully avoiding stirring up racial friction<<<”
Crack Ass Cracker Press
Yeah. The kid reports them for selling drugs, the school officials let the drug sellers know who reported them, they do nothing to punish the perps, and then they send them all home together on the same bus.
That’s public school administrators for you.
Video shows the Obama boys at it again.
Not sharia law....the victim is white the attackers black, OF COURSE it’s the white boy’s fault. uh, that would be the little scrawny white boy and the big muscular black boys. Their mommas will claim they’re GOOD boys, just turning their life around, never a minute’s trouble before.
Cops have no legal duty to protect but busdrivers do?
We haven’t heard from these three Trayvon’s Grandmother yet about how these boys are wonderful kids.
They are just misunderstood.
It is a shame this Cracker kid hurt their feelings by not buying their dope and reporting them to school authorities who did not immediately call the police in to investigate the charges.
Crack Ass Cracker Press
Except that the one black kid is showing his own AssCrack above his pants. We need a white Al Sharpton to go to bat for this white kid. Lets get Holder to send a bus of protesters down there...otherwise I think Holder may be a racist.
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