funny wrote:
Here's a point that hasn't been raised yet, but is in most articles on the incident:
The Bully was 12
The "victim" is 16 Goddamn years old.
how does that change this incident in your eyes? My brother is 4 years younger than me, and I know that when I was a sophmore in HS and he was a little 6th grader, I could beat the everloving sh!t out of him, even with him getting a 10-punch head start. I still think the little prick got taught a very valuable life lesson, but the victim really went above and beyond. Still, don't punish the victim, but the bully shouldn't get punished either. just chalk it up to life lessons being doled out by the chubby fists of anger.
This is the point(how can a tiny bully pick on a big guy) that is misunderstood by most people.
The answer lies in the dynamics of bully found in schools.
A bully is NEVER alone; the person is always part of a clique or a gang.
Do you actually believe someone just haphazardly happened to be there to videotape the whole thing from beginning? These bullies usually set up the whole scene and prepare to tape it with the goal to put it on the internet.
In this case, there were at least three people in the bully gang: the tiny bully, the one videotaping it while shouting encouraging the tiny bully, and the white shirt tough-guy-pretend who thought about going after the bullied.
So was the force excessive exercised by the one being bullied? Absolutely no, had he decided to fight back by exchanging punches with the tiny bully, chances were others would have jumped on him. He did the right thing in ending it with the blow strong enough to terminate the whole scene.
So stop being sympathetic with the bully.
They just always come in a gang.