Angry Adult Storms School Bus, Beats Bronx Boy

Jameel Grant, a week later (WCBS).

Last Friday morning one Bronx man had enough with those pesky kids leaning out of their fancy school buses and taunting him and his niece. So naturally he stormed up to the back of one of those offending vehicles—a bus for special needs kids—opened the unlocked emergency exit, climbed aboard and started beating on 11-year-old Jameel Grant.

“He just kept on punching me. He punched me in the face, all over my face,” a still shaken Grant said a week after the incident. “My lip was swollen. My upper lip was big like this and I had a bump. It was a big bump.”

The boy (who has yet to return to school after the incident) says that other kids on the bus were in fact taunting the man, but that he wasn't. "He said that he doesn't care who he beats up," Grant explained. "He's tired of everybody cursing at his niece."

And as quickly as the attack began it was over, the man left, and the bus continued on its way to PS 186. But before then the bus driver had reportedly done nothing to stop the attack. According to Grant's mother, the driver was worried because "the man was putting his hand in his pocket and she didn’t know what he was taking out.”

Naturally Grant's mother. Brunila Canales, is livid over the situation her son was put in. “There should be someone that would intervene when something like this happens. It wasn’t only my son on the bus!” It is not currently clear if there was a surveillance camera on the bus.

School officials confirm the attack took place and that police are now investigating the matter. Reportedly they have a pretty good description of the attacker.

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By Garth Johnston in News on April 1, 2011 9:26 AM

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winning1234

Riiiight, everyone else was hollering at the guy except the one kid that got beat. Riiiiight.

SFNY

Both the links go to articles that quote Grant saying there was one kid yelling, and it wasn't him. Gothamist seems to be the only place saying it was a bunch of kids.

nicemarmot

Farva? Is that you?

Inconcievable de Impublishable

Please tell me they fired the bus driver for not intervening.

SFNY

Nice comments. Grown ups bullying a child from behind a keyboard. Feeling all big and clever at the expense of an 11-year-old assault victim who's suffering from PTSD? How awesome for you.

jza1218

"Special Needs" probably means delinquents in this case

chud_hunter

The opposite happened to me when I was 9... the driver stormed off the bus, grabbed me by the throat and kicked me after I chucked a snowball at his window and flipped him off. I'm sure he still hated his life afterward.

Guest

i'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!
that's an 11 year old?
that's a boy?

imadick

yeah, at first i thought it was the woman who beat on the kid.

TimSPC

Beating up the kids taunting you on the bus? This guy is living the dream.

hanbush

That niece must've been quite a piece of work if even special needs kids were ragging on her.

HJaySimpson

Hey, some of these kids need a good butt whippin', because they sure arent getting it at home.

Now a face punchin'? I dont know about that. If I were that man, I would unbuckle my belt and give him a few lashings...