Brew News: Brutal Belleville, IL School Bus Beating

Sooooo wrong, so disturbing. This is footage of the Black students from Belleville, IL beating up on a white student on their school bus.

A brutal school bus beating that police say may be racially motivated was caught on video and the footage is now circulating on the web. A white student at Belleville West High School was subjected to not one, but two vicious beatings by two of his African-American peers and the entire assault was captured on surveillance video.

The video begins with the Belleville West High School student, aged 17, trying to find a seat on the bus. Every time he tries to sit down he is deterred by other kids on the bus until the driver finally gives them no choice.

The white boy moves a bag off a seat and sits only to be brutally assaulted by two other students who were encouraged to escalate the attack by other kids on the bus. Based on the way the boy was treated leading up to the attack and the manner in which two African-American students ganged up on him police have suggested racism was a likely motivator.

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