The police code for it is 701.
You probably have heard of it by its street name: Wolf pack attack.
But hearing about it is one thing. Seeing it is something else altogether.
Upper Darby police yesterday went into Upper Darby High School and arrested six kids in a vicious “wolf-pack” style bullying attack.
Police Superintendent Mike Chitwood referred to is as one of the most “heinous” incidents of bullying he’s seen in his long career.
And what makes it especially chilling is the fact that the kids who inflicted this attack apparently decided it would be “cool” to videotape their actions.
You can now see their idea of fun here on our website.
On it you can see a group of teen boys – or “thugs” as Chitwood more accurately describes them – attacking a 13-year-old kid. They dragged him across the snow-covered ground by his legs. They punched and kicked him. They stuffed him upside down in a tree. And finally they left him hanging on a fence.
Almost as troubling is the fact that deespite the young man’s screams for help clearly heard on the tape, not one person inside the apartment complex where the attack took place even bothered to place a 911 call for help. At another point in the video a woman walks past as the youth is being menaced. She says nothing.
Chitwood says it is no accident that the six suspects were taken out of school in front of all their friends and classmates. He wants to send a message. This kind of bullying will not be tolerated in Upper Darby.
“It’s bullying in America at its worst,” Chitwood said.
This morning the story was featured on NBC’s “Today” Show, including the video.
Bullying in America indeed.
And incredibly sad.
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