Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. To night both the boy in the video and his mom are talking about what happened. Fox 29s brad sattin is live outside the memphis Street Academy Charter School in Port Richmond tonight. Brad . Reporter chris, this just seems to be the latest video on social media that students have been seeing in the philly area in recent days. This victim a seventh grader here at memphis Street Academy. This is a Charter School. A middle school here. We know the school and the police are trying to get down to the bottom of things here, but it also seems the roost problem may be social media. A warning, this video is very tough to watch. Imagine watching this video and its your 13yearold son being blind sided on his way home from School Struck in the head not once but four times by two other boys. As a mom, seeing your son beat up by someone, when i dont even hit my kids, it really made me upset. Reporter karas son derek a seventh grader fortunately was
Two other boys. As a mom, seeing your son beat up by someone, when i dont even hit my kids, it really made me upset. Reporter karas son derek a seventh grader fortunately was not seriousing hurt. I was walking up. I heard footsteps. I didnt pay attention. I felt a punch hit me. I drop to the floor. Another kid hit me. Reporter as in so many cases what ended here on a street a few blocks from School Started on social media where derek says a week ago he corrected a classmate on her grammar in an instagram post. After i corrected her, she got mad. She told her boyfriend that, he texted me and then i texted him do you want to fight . Derek admits provoking a fight with her boyfriend but says they work it out or so he thought. Someone recorded the blows and suddenly unbeknownst to derek or his mom the video was everywhe everywhere. With social media being the way it is, those kids saw that video. Somebody should have called in. Reporter derek says he and his friends were attacked again thu
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