Milwaukee Bus Beating
This incident happened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to news reports it was a group of kids from an alternative school in the area. They apparently were all riding the same public bus when, for whatever reason, they turned on one of the kids. They beat him up pretty bad but the funny part about this video is that it wasn’t even reported. The officials on the bus just happened to uncover it while they were routinely doing surveillance incident checks.
My guess is that this type of thing happens so often that the bus drivers don’t even bother reporting it. It’s just seen as a lot of paperwork and probably requires them to work overtime for which they probably don’t get paid.
Teen Beaten By Classmates On Milwaukee County Bus
MILWAUKEE — Four teenagers have been arrested, accused in a mob beating on a county bus.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said the attack was similar to what happened to Charlie Young, a man who was beaten to death by 15 young men in 2002.
Raw Video: Mob Beating On Milwaukee County Bus
The victim in this attack is going to be fine, but Clarke said the video should be a wakeup call to the county board and the school the suspects attend.
The video shows a 15-year-old student from St. Charles alternative school being turned on by at least five of his classmates.
As the suspects, 15 and 16 years old, punched and kicked the boy, others on the bus gather close with one climbing up on the overhead hand rails for a better look.
Clarke said the tape of the beating last Thursday turned up in a review of security incidents on the transit system. He said the transit security contractor, Wackenhut, should have informed them right away.
He also blamed the school, which caters to students expelled for behavior problems in other schools. Clarke said this is just one of 30 documented incidents on buses this year by students at St. Charles.
“They are a menace. These anti-social undisciplined criminal males have been placed at St. Charles because they have been kicked out of mostly MPS schools because their disruptive behavior is not compatible with an orderly environment necessary for learning,” Clarke said.
And bus riders, in general, agreed more needs to be done to beef up bus security in light of this beating and the recent beating of a bus driver in which the prime suspect was also a St. Charles student.
“I’ve seen a lot of swearing on the bus, arguing, bus drivers not taking any chances to tell them to be quiet. There’s a lot of things on the bus that shouldn’t be and a lot of kids are getting away with it and they shouldn’t,” bus passenger Demitrice Harmon said.
Four of the five suspects have been arrested so far and deputies are still tracking down the fifth.
They have not yet been charged.
The victim had only minor injuries.
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