Shocking moment school bus bullies pummel 14-year-old boy leaving him hospitalized with head injuries ‘because he’d worn a Trump 2020 hat’
- Shocking incident occurred on November 21 in Hamilton County, Florida
- Boy named only as Tyler, 14, was hospitalized after the brutal 5-on-1 attack
- Mother says he had been relentlessly bullied after wearing Trump hat previously
- Calls for the attackers to be prosecuted for hate crime and attempted murder
Shocking video has emerged showing a 14-year-old boy being attacked on a school bus, purportedly because he’d previously worn a hat supporting President Donald Trump.
The incident occurred on November 21 in Hamilton County, Florida, and the video first emerged on Thursday after the boy’s family retained attorney Foye B. Walker for possible legal action.
The incident left the boy, identified only as Tyler, hospitalized with head contusions, according to his mother, a Trump supporter who tweets under the handle @AmericanDiaries.
The attorney, Walker, verified in a tweet that the incident occurred on a school bus in Hamilton County, and that he was representing the family. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.
The video shows vicious bullies attacking the young boy and pummeling him on the bus. His mother says the attackers were enraged he’d previously worn a Trump hat to school
The boy’s mother explained on Twitter that she believed the attackers were motivated by a Trump 2020 campaign hat that her son had previously worn to school.
She said that the boy stopped wearing the hat due to harassment, but that the bullying continued.
‘To be clear, my son bought his Trump 2020 hat with his own money at the flea market a few weeks ago,’ the mother wrote.
‘He was proud to wear it. He wore it to School, but due to immediate bullying he put it away & didn’t wear it to school again, sadly the damage was already done & [he] was now a target,’ she said.
‘From that point on he was steadily getting messed with. He was getting hit, tripped & verbally abused on the bus, but it all came to a head yesterday on his bus ride home,’ she continued.
The mother took this photo in the hospital, where the boy was evaluated for head injuries and released after the vicious five-on-one attack
The mother also shared paperwork given to the family at the hospital
She said that when Tyler was examined after the school, nurses found older bruising along with the new injuries. ‘He didn’t tell us about the bullying, but they took it to a new level yesterday and we are just now learning what he was going through,’ she said.
Video of the attack shows at least three females and two males raining blows down on Tyler’s head as he tries to protect himself from the attack.
Tyler’s mother says she believes the assault was racially motivated. Tyler is white, and the assailants appear to be black.
‘Plain and simple this was a hate crime and attempted murder according to the state of Florida since it was over three kids that jumped him and these kids are older and larger,’ the mother tweeted.
She said that she had contacted the police and the school district, and that the children involved had been suspended from school.