David Spencer, 18, and Chase Morrison, 16, face charges in Long Island of assault and aggravated harassment after beating up a 14-year-old boy on a school bus Tuesday while calling him a faggot, or whatever anti-gay slurs teenage assholes use these days. A third boy, Roy Wilson, 14, was charged with assault, but not harassment because he didn’t name call. The bus driver pulled the bus over until the assault stopped; a bus monitor was also on board. The victim was slapped, stomped on, and kicked. The young men, all students at Nassau BOCES High School, have allegedly been taunting the victim for weeks. On Wednesday morning on the way to school, they taunted him again, throwing slurs and slapping him. They were arrested later in the day.
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3 Lovely Long Island Boys Spend School Bus Ride Beating Crap Out of 14-Year-Old Gay Student
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Cam
And let me guess…the homophobic prosecuter will fing some reason to explain why this WASN’T a hate crime and will refuse to charge them with it.
acem
Countdown to this being turned into a slanderous, patronizing and generalizing commentary about homophobia in the Black community in…5, 4, 3….
Chang
Why didn’t the bus driver and monitor stop the assault?
scott ny'er
18 yo. Still in HS. And picking on a 14 yo. What a loser. As are the thugs who were with him. I hope Karma exists but I doubt it.
tallskin2
the main news report says the thugs and the victim attended “Nassau Boces, which is a specialized public school in Hicksville”.
Is this some of joke??? “Hicksville”???
So, the thugs are retards then attending a special school for the hard of thinking.
I cannot get my head around the idea of three 16 year olds bullying a little 14 year old kid.
F*cking brutes.
ewe
Simple assault and harassment are about the same as disorderly charges. Aggravated assault and stalking are felonies. They do not deserve to be charged with only a misdemeanor.
edgyguy1426
I hope you guys follow up on this story
Cam
@ewe:
Rembmber, the Hate Crimes bill passed, by all rights they should be charged with that.
The problem is, I’m sure that the homophobic Long Island Prosecutors will let them go or find some reason to dismiss the case.
Kev C
@Chang: Maybe they were too busy watching and cheering them on. Fighting is a spectator sport. I saw a school fight yesterday. Must have been 30 spectators.
adman
My partner was coming home from work the other day and a neighbor kid yelled to no one in particular “There goes the faggot pig!” so his uncle slapped him hard in the mouth. Things changing? I hope so. All I know is that the church folk around here (and there are many) are mightily confused, the messaging from their overlords is not as uniform as it once was. I hope they get ulcers from the stress, personally.
B
No. 9 · Kev C wrote, “@Chang: Maybe they were too busy watching and cheering them on.”
Most likely, the driver told them to stop it. He doesn’t get off work until the kids get home, and it isn’t safe to drive while there is a fight going on – someone might fall onto the driver leading to a crash.
With a narrow aisle and differences in physical condition, I can see why two adults, particularly older ones, might have trouble physically restraining 3 teenagers, especially the 18 year old one, but the driver and monitor will have a hard time explaining why they did not report the crime to the police or their supervisors. The best (i.e., most effective) excuse they might come up with is, “I thought the other guy reported it.” If that’s what they use, you can say that you read it here first: right now they are deeply in “cover your ass” mode. According to the video, the police are asking questions about why this crime was not reported, so both of these characters are more than likely a bit nervous.
Rob
Why aren’t these kids hitting back? Man, take off you heels and gouge the motherfuckers eye out. Just jam that shoe into the fuckers face as hard as you can. I don’t get it. Even I’m a little afraid of the kids on Christopher St.
Yellow Bone
@B I don’t know what this specific school does, but the ones here tell the staff not to intefere until it’s safe to.
Dan T
@tallskin2: Hicksville is an actual town, believe it or not.
Devonasa
Wait a second…
So the bus driver pulled the bus over, UNTIL the assault stopped. What did these 2 adults on the bus, one being the driver and the other being the bus monitor, do nothing to stop these attacks or stop the slurs when it began.
My gosh I find that adults in the school systems these days are useless, these bullies have been attacking the kid for weeks with anti-gay slurs and nothing has been done..no discipline. Why is it no action to stop such things, take place UNTIL after a child is beaten up or kills themself. There is ALWAYS warning signs and incidents before the worse takes place…as much as these kids are to blame, it’s time these schools start taking responsibility for their actions, or lack thereof, and get punished themselves for not looking out for their students.
Sam
Throw some wings and melons at this trash.
JumpingUp
Hicksville was named after it’s founder, Valentine Hicks. It’s not full of hicks- lol. (A middle-class, upper-middle class, mostly white suburb easily accesible to and from New York City).
randy
Rob, gays kids don’t fight back for a very simple reason — you can’t win a fight when it’s three to one.
Even if by some miracle you could, they will jump you some other time and beat the crap out of you.
L.
Three against one, four and two years older. And *gays* are supposed to be the sissy ones?
Yellow Bone
@randy: Exactly. Gay, straight, whatever. Not very many people would be able to go 3 v 1 and win. and if they do win, they’ll just come back with more people and more force.
B
No. 15 · Devonasa wrote, “Wait a second… So the bus driver pulled the bus over, UNTIL the assault stopped. What did these 2 adults on the bus, one being the driver and the other being the bus monitor, do nothing to stop these attacks or stop the slurs when it began.”
The article was light on details and didn’t say what the driver and
monitor did, if anything, to stop the assault. It didn’t even say if the monitor was at the back or front of the bus when the assault started. If you had the 18 year old in the way, blocking the driver and monitor, and the other two kids beating up the victim, the monitor and driver might not have been able to reach the victim. At this point we really don’t know, but the police are asking questions, probably grilling the driver and monitor, so we should find out soon enough.
ewe
@Cam: your point has come true. they have been let out on 1000 dollar bail.
Zeus
I’m well over 35 y/o, yet I still get mistaken for a VERY young person. It’s a shame that me striking one of these little brats would be breaking the law. I’d certainly like to slap them around a bit just to give them a real taste of what it’s like, when no fear is involved. I just don’t get where this is coming from.
wannabegay2
18 and 16 year olds picking on a 14 yo. Very courageous.
It is our fault, mine, yours and everyone else’s. Because we portray masculinity in a certain way, because we are cowards and stay in the closet, because we refuse to take a stand when we see injustice happening.
JumpingUp
I don’t know, Wannabegay. I grew up in a basically white rough blue-collar somewhat urban neighborhood, and one of the basic “rules” of boyhood/manhood/man’s world/whatever life we were taught was that there’s nothing more contemptible than a bully (like a trio of 18/16 year olds beating up one 14-year-old) . I still think/hope that’s a basic rule.
scott ny'er
@wannabegay2: WTF? Blame the victim! Crazy talk.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
3 Against 1? nothing more than 3 bitches……
I wish more parents were as proactive as my friend Kyles parents were…………
I posted a on another thread about my friend in grammer school, Kyle. There is a sweetness about Kyle’s story but in this instance I am gonna cut to the chase. Kyle was a tiny,oh so very queeney, adorable little kid. His parents knew what he would face and enrolled him in martial arts training at age 4. By age 9 he was a fourth degree black belt. He had the ability to and was forced to do so many times to land hatefull bullies more than twice his size right on their vile fat asses. He could have put a whole lot more of hurt on these kids, but offered this warning only once. After the stars they were seeing slowed down and they say four foot nothing Kyle standing over them, he told them “you just had your only warning, don’t ever touch me or anyone else smaller than you again, because if you do I will act as stupid as you do”……
40 2
Jaroslaw
Plays – I wish my parents had put in karate class – I was not so short, but very thin. Not so now… but that’s another story!
Anyway, I was fortunate to be an A student. I always helped the less smart kids, just to be nice and it ended up working out. They would protect me and I didn’t have too many problems. I particularly remember this really big (not fat) Hawaian kid named Pete – he was really slow, but tried hard. All I had to do was say his name and the bullies would run! !!!
Nick
niggers
alicia banks
shame!
dl butch queen pastors/tree jumpers for jesus like eddie long teach dl thugs to act out and torture gay kids like this!…
shame!!!!
alicia banks
eloquent fury
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