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SEE IT: Mob of teenagers beats two high school students in Philadelphia subway station
By Jason Silverstein
New York Daily News
Published: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 2:24 A.M.
Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 9:10 A.M.
A security video showing a mob of students brutally beating two high schoolers in a Philadelphia subway station on Tuesday is being investigated by the city’s transportation officers.
“It’s an outrageous event. This is so dangerous, it’s not even funny,” Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Police Chief Thomas J. Nestel III told Philly.com.
“We have operating trains down there. There are passengers waiting for the train ... it’s horrendous.”
The video, which was time-stamped around 3:15 p.m., shows about a dozen teenagers either participating in a one-minute assault on two male students, or cheering it on.
One of the assailants falls onto the subway tracks, pulls himself out and reenters the thrashing. A girl in the crowd tries to film the fight on her phone.
Several of the teen brutes repeatedly stomp a victim’s head as he’s lying on the ground.
The assault begins one minute into a four-minute clip released by SEPTA.
Some of those involved in the attack — including the victims — fled onto a train moments before SEPTA officers rushed to the platform and others appear to have simply walked away. Nobody involved in the attack reported it to police, Nestel said.
The beating begins abruptly as the students wait for a train to arrive.
Initial reports indicate the fight started over a female student and that the victims were followed into the Spring Garden Station and someone signaled for the group to attack them. The victims are obscured behind a subway map in the video when the beatdown begins.
The victims, both from Benjamin Franklin High School, have been identified, but it’s unclear if SEPTA officers have spoken with them or what their condition is, a SEPTA spokesperson told the Daily News. It’s also unclear if all of the students went to the same school.
Police believe several of the assailants went to the same school and the district is trying to identify those responsible, with suspension or expulsion as possible punishments.
After the assault, SEPTA upped its security at 10 stations that typically see steady student traffic.
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In Chicagoland suburbs a "15 year old boy" attacked a woman on a CTA blue line train. In mid-afternoon the woman boarded an empty train car at the Oak Park Illinois stop..The "boy" beat, robbed and raped her. She had $2,000 on her possession. She had planned on wiring the money to her family in Thailand. He later spent the money on Jordan jumpsuits, candy and friends. His image was captured on CTA cameras and exposed to the public. His mother turned him in and also got into arguments with prosecutors. The poor victim was an Asian woman this time. Welcome to America! N.S.please expose this crime.
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