The fight, which happened on Feb. 12, was broken up when officers took the Black boy to the ground and handcuffed him, while the lighter skinned boy was treated more gently and was apprently never cuffed. Video of the incident went viral.
The fight, which happened Feb. 12 at Bridgewater Commons Mall, wasand handcuffed him, while the lighter skinned boy was apparently never cuffed. Video of the incident went viral.
“Now you know what systemic racism looks like,” said Steve Young, president of the South Jersey chapter of the National Action Network, the organization led by Rev. Al Sharpton. She said Kye, an eighth grader, “stood up to a bully” at the mall to defend a seventh grader from high school students.
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