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Angry Adult Storms School Bus, Beats Bronx Boy
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Garth Johnston
Published Apr 1, 2011
Modified Apr 1, 2011
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Garth Johnston
Published Apr 1, 2011
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Last Friday morning one Bronx man had enough with those pesky kids leaning out of their fancy school buses and taunting him and his niece. So naturally he stormed up to the back of one of those offending vehicles—a bus for special needs kids—opened the unlocked emergency exit, climbed aboard and started beating on 11-year-old Jameel Grant.
“He just kept on punching me. He punched me in the face, all over my face,” a still shaken Grant said a week after the incident. “My lip was swollen. My upper lip was big like this and I had a bump. It was a big bump.”
The boy (who has yet to return to school after the incident) says that other kids on the bus were in fact taunting the man, but that he wasn't. "He said that he doesn't care who he beats up," Grant explained. "He's tired of everybody cursing at his niece."
And as quickly as the attack began it was over, the man left, and the bus continued on its way to PS 186. But before then the bus driver had reportedly done nothing to stop the attack. According to Grant's mother, the driver was worried because "the man was putting his hand in his pocket and she didn’t know what he was taking out.”
Naturally Grant's mother. Brunila Canales, is livid over the situation her son was put in. “There should be someone that would intervene when something like this happens. It wasn’t only my son on the bus!” It is not currently clear if there was a surveillance camera on the bus.
School officials confirm the attack took place and that police are now investigating the matter. Reportedly they have a pretty good description of the attacker.
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