A racist attack on a school bus leads to hate crime – essence

Return to school was terribly disturbing for a 10-12 months-old black girl in New York. Only days after the tutorial 12 months, the racist attack on the school bus left her visible scars and a terrifying memory, which she probably is not going to forget soon. Local police treat this incident as a hate crime.

Her attackers, 10 and 11 years old, are white and so they were each accused of harassment of the second degree according to CBS affiliation On. The 11-12 months-old was also accused of assaulting a third degree as a hate crime.

“This is probably the most professionally destructive event since I started working in Gouverneur in 1984,” said school curator Lauren French in an interview with this week.

The young girl attacked left the attack with a black eye after hitting, hair loss from his pulling out and a bruised knee. Throughout this incident, it mocked with racial insults. The girl’s mother filed a formal criticism to the local police on September 10. After a two -week investigation, her attackers were accused.

The Tiffany N. Spicer bus assistant was also accused, who’s white and watched the incident playing without intervention. He reports that he’s within the face of three cases of exposure to the nice of the kid.

“I strongly believe that we are better than that,” the Frenchman told reporters. “And we must take a position that model what we believe and puts our conviction in the foreground and determines the expectations where it should be that all people are treated with human dignity.”

Governor Andrew Cuomo weighed the case through a statement obtained by . “The fact that her classmates allegedly committed this, on a school bus with the current adult monitor, makes this incident even more shocking and disturbing,” said Cuomo.

The governor ordered the division of human rights to open an investigation into an attack that lasted 20 minutes. Task group for hate crimes was also asked to help the local authorities.