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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Because it is disgusting. I think the Police Chief hit it on the head (no pun intended) when he said that anyone that witnesses that should try to stop it. The video taper is just as bad and the attacker and all the others that stood by and watched.
Set aside that the individual beaten has autism, nobody deserves to be beaten like that. Even if the boy did do something prior to prevoke the incident, there is no excuse for what we say in that video.
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The only reason the attacker is in jail is because of this video.
I don't know what the filmer's motivations were and I think it's best not to assume. I couldn't hear anything in the video in the link, so maybe there is another version with the filmer is egging the attacker on and high fiving him, in which case I'm obviously a bum.
Maybe the filmer was small and helpless like AcGold* above. If he never filmed that video than this kid would just be another kid on the "autistic scale" getting bullied and the internet would be without its tough guy mob outrage revenge fantasy of the week.
We should be thanking the filmer and the news should be paying him for all the sweet sweet cheddar they are making off his video. Until next week's facebook outrage bumps this off the front page, of course.
*AcGold, the guy who is just as bad as his class president according to your post.