You’ve probably already seen this very graphic video of a troubled 16-year-old boy beating the brakes off a female school bus driver who had ordered him to sit down for his own safety.
The boy is black and the bus driver is white. The incident took place last Tuesday in Kalamazoo, Michigan where other racially charged incidents have recently occurred.
The victim was a substitute bus driver transporting special needs high school students with emotional and behavioral problems.
The boy’s father said the bus driver “provoked” his son by tapping the brakes and throwing him off balance. In the video, the boy is seen losing his balance as the bus driver taps the brakes. He then warns her, “I’m not the one to play with, I’ll knock your old a** out.” The boy claims to have blacked out just prior to assaulting the driver.
The bus driver suffered a broken hand, burst blood vessels in both eyes, cuts, swelling and contusions in the face area and six stitches in her lip.
The youth’s mother later defended him, saying her son was bi-polar and schizophrenic with no history of violence.
But Newschannel 3 found five prior assault charges on the juvenile’s criminal record.
The teen is currently being held on $5,000 bond at a juvenile detention facility.
