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VANCOUVER RCMP in Mission say a 14-year-old student was arrested and released pending an investigation after another case of violence on school grounds. The Mounties say the student from Ecole Heritage Park Middle School was arrested after an assault at Mission Secondary last Wednesday. That s after video footage showed another assault on the Heritage Park school grounds last Monday, resulting in the arrests of two teen girls. The video circulated on social media shows two people kicking and punching the victim while a crowd looks on, laughing. A drive-by rally was held Sunday in support of the 13-year-old transgender student and victim of the first assault.
MISSION, B.C. Residents of Mission, B.C., and surrounding communities showed up in tow trucks, Teslas and everything in between to show solidarity with a teen viciously assaulted at a middle school because of their gender identity. Hundreds of vehicles staged at Mission Raceway, a park in the municipality in B.C. s Lower Mainland, before travelling past the victim and their family in a boisterous caravan. “It just breaks my heart,” said Katey Garley, who travelled from Abbotsford to take part in the rally. The attack, which reportedly took place at Ecole Heritage Park Middle School last Monday, is said to have been carried out by a pair of 14-year-old girls. It is alleged they repeatedly kicked the victim while they were down.