The NY Daily news
written by Anthony Bartkewicz
Thursday October 4, 2012
As two bully brothers beat up seventh-grader Parker Brockman, kids on the bus whipped out their cell phones to videotape the attack instead of helping him.
Parker was on his way home from Sunrise Middle School in Scottsdale, Ariz., when the two boys started harassing him and goading him to fight back, KNXV-TV reported.
One of the brothers “was insulting me, cussing at me, saying ‘hit me,’” Parker recalled. “He was literally telling me to punch him the whole time.”
He finally lashed out. “After a while I swung a few punches,” he said. The brothers responded by pummeling him with their fists.
“They were basically on top of me trying to punch my face,” Parker said.
The bus driver finally pulled over to stop the melee.
Parker’s mom, Tiffany Hunter, knew something was wrong when he came home, though “he didn’t say anything,” she told KNXV.
He eventually told her that the two brothers — who are known bullies, according to other local parents — ganged up on him.
“This never would’ve happened if they were aware of the fact that these boys have been picking on other people,” Hunter said.
Her son is a frequent target for bullies, she said, but “he tries to be a tough guy. He doesn’t back down.”
The two brothers were suspended from school and from the bus over the incident.
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