Overview
- The 14-year-old suspect, captured on video attacking a 15-year-old classmate, was arrested Wednesday and appeared in Manhattan Family Court Thursday, where a judge remanded him into custody.
- The confrontation unfolded Monday near East 107th Street and Third Avenue after school, with the boy blocking her path, making threats, lifting her, slamming her to the sidewalk, and then stomping on her head.
- EMS took the girl to Harlem Hospital in stable condition with a concussion, and her mother says she also suffered bleeding and a possible brain injury after weeks of alleged harassment.
- Police charged the boy with assault and withheld his name because he is a juvenile, and the footage shows bystanders recording as someone off-camera urges, "Do it."
- The suspect’s mother claims the girl pushed and bullied her son, a claim she has not supported with video, as the clip’s wide spread on social media has drawn intense public anger.