4 teenage bullies had been caught on video beating up a 21-year-old girl with an mental incapacity in a barbaric assault in a small Hawaiian city — prompting anger from residents, who hunted down the younger thugs till they had been arrested.
The heartbreaking video begins with two of the bullies surrounding and taunting the sufferer, who has solely been recognized as Carly, at a bus cease in Wahiawa, about 20 miles north of Honolulu.
Then one of many bullies, 18-year-old Jasmine Keola, asks Carly to take off her backpack earlier than aggressively throwing it to the bottom. Keola then violently slaps her glasses off her face.
Carly screams and crouches to the bottom, the place the violent slapping continues.
“You dumb f–k,” Keola yells.
“This is why I don’t want to take the bus anymore, because I don’t want to mess with you,” Carly mentioned despairingly, the footage exhibits earlier than Carly manages to get again up on her ft.
“What are you going to do?” the opposite ladies mock.
“I’m going to leave my everything … right now,” she says as she makes an attempt to stroll away.
Carly will get to the opposite aspect of the road, the place the women proceed hitting and laughing at her.
The assault escalates when Carly is on the bottom once more. The ladies kick and punch her within the head, and she or he’s unable to battle again.
“Now what are you going to do? F–king dumb c–t,” one of many ladies is heard screaming.
“She’s knocked out,” one other mentioned, sounding proud.
The vicious assault has angered the neighborhood.
“This was absolutely cruel. It was more than bullying … it was a senseless, cruel assault and simply pure evil. The girls involved in this should be absolutely ashamed of themselves,” mentioned Honolulu resident Michael Kitchens.
“It was one of the worst actions you can take against someone who is unwilling, defenseless, and unfortunately, one who suffers with disabilities. I do not have sympathy for them.”
Kitchens was one of many native vigilantes who hunted down the suspects. Some even livestreamed their searches on social media. At one level, 11,000 folks had been watching the drama unfold on Instagram Stay, as video confirmed neighborhood members scaling buildings to confront the bullies.
“It’s not right. We’re not bullies ourselves. You shouldn’t bully nobody else, especially someone that can’t stand up for themselves,” Leilehua Excessive Faculty senior Journey Emond instructed Hawaii Information.
Honolulu police arrested three ladies, aged 14, 16 and 18. A 13-year-old boy was additionally arrested. However the suspects had been all launched from jail, and the case in opposition to them was dismissed.
Keola apologized after court docket.
“I got pressured actually to fighting the girl. I didn’t want to fight her. but I did anyway … I’m sorry for what I did, I didn’t mean to do it,” Keola instructed KHON.
Her mom additionally expressed regret.
“I didn’t mean for it to go this far. But I apologize for my children’s actions, and I hope that you guys can forgive my kids,” she mentioned.
