Bullies often choose the weakest targets who they can easily dominate either physically or mentally to boost their own self-esteem and hide their own insecurities, however, when one school bully decided to pick on and beat up a special needs student, he thought it would be an easy fight.
And it was. The bully easily took down the frightened boy, who mainly tried to protect himself during the attack, and at first, onlookers just took out their phones and filmed what was happening instead of jumping in and helping. Some students from the Santa Clarita high school can even be heard snickering as the victim, whose name has been withheld, falls to the ground.
Finally, however, two students step in and put an end to the unfair fight. “He has special education, why would you take advantage of something like that? Just walk away,” said student Matt Padilla. But as word spread about the fight, students were outraged and rallied behind the special needs boy.
“The entire school was ready to back this kid up, make sure he doesn’t get hurt anymore. Everyone wanted to make sure he was okay. At first, he was scared to come to school,” Padilla said. Together, the student came dressed in all black to show support and decided to stand up for anyone being bullied.
“Definitely, it made a lot people start thinking about it and start thinking maybe we should be looking at how we’re handling things and talking to people,” student Grayson Thomas said.
Watch the entire video below to see the disturbing moment this special needs student was beat up by a bully.
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