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A video showing a young girl being assaulted by two other girls in Lockport has many in the community demanding justice -- and answers.
The video, shot Friday on Devereaux Court near Cave Street, shows a young white girl standing still while a male counts to 10 - and then to five, after which the girl is grabbed by the hair, slapped and punched by a black girl who appears to be approximately the same size and age. After a short while, another black girl - of a much larger stature - joins in assaulting the victim. The video ends as the victim runs towards Cave Street.
Lockport Police Department Captain Brian Wentland said this afternoon that the first assailant has been charged with third-degree assault and the second assailant will be charged when police catch up with her.
The girls are both juveniles so police have not released their names. Although several posts online have identified the girls, East Niagara Post does not name juveniles in crimes.
The video appears below. It is graphic in nature and some may find it disturbing.
North Park Junior High School Principal Dr. Ryan Schoenfeld said the video is disheartening for a number of reasons, least among them being that the school just had four sessions on students' rights to know, including one on bullying, on Friday - the day of the attack. The three girls are North Park students.
Schoenfeld said the school learned of the video and is dealing with it, but noted that it is a police matter.
Schoenfeld said the school has been very proactive in dealing with bullying. Last year, the school won praise for a much more positive video; one in which the students proudly hold signs showing how they're identified by themselves or others - to the tune of Miranda Lambert's "All Kinds of Kinds." The video went viral when Lambert, herself, tweeted about it.
The school also works with the Lockport Police Department's G.R.E.A.T. program. And there are two hall monitors in the school to serve as liaisons between students and administration. They also act as peer counselors.
"You can be doing all of this stuff and bad things still happen," Schoenfeld said.
LPD Community Policing Aide Mark Sanders said the department was made aware of the video over the weekend and that the matter remains under investigation. The department has been in contact with the victim as well as the assailants.
He called the video "deplorable" and "hard to watch."
Due to the age of those involved, the situation will be handled in family court, he said.
The department has announced that it will be holding a community meeting at 7 p.m. Sept. 25 at 221 Erie St.
Note: Story edited at 5:01 p.m. to include fact that one girl has been charged and another will be.
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A video showing a young girl being assaulted by two other girls in Lockport has many in the community demanding justice -- and answers.
The video, shot Friday on Devereaux Court near Cave Street, shows a young white girl standing still while a male counts to 10 - and then to five, after which the girl is grabbed by the hair, slapped and punched by a black girl who appears to be approximately the same size and age. After a short while, another black girl - of a much larger stature - joins in assaulting the victim. The video ends as the victim runs towards Cave Street.
Lockport Police Department Captain Brian Wentland said this afternoon that the first assailant has been charged with third-degree assault and the second assailant will be charged when police catch up with her.
The girls are both juveniles so police have not released their names. Although several posts online have identified the girls, East Niagara Post does not name juveniles in crimes.
The video appears below. It is graphic in nature and some may find it disturbing.
North Park Junior High School Principal Dr. Ryan Schoenfeld said the video is disheartening for a number of reasons, least among them being that the school just had four sessions on students' rights to know, including one on bullying, on Friday - the day of the attack. The three girls are North Park students.
Schoenfeld said the school learned of the video and is dealing with it, but noted that it is a police matter.
Schoenfeld said the school has been very proactive in dealing with bullying. Last year, the school won praise for a much more positive video; one in which the students proudly hold signs showing how they're identified by themselves or others - to the tune of Miranda Lambert's "All Kinds of Kinds." The video went viral when Lambert, herself, tweeted about it.
The school also works with the Lockport Police Department's G.R.E.A.T. program. And there are two hall monitors in the school to serve as liaisons between students and administration. They also act as peer counselors.
"You can be doing all of this stuff and bad things still happen," Schoenfeld said.
LPD Community Policing Aide Mark Sanders said the department was made aware of the video over the weekend and that the matter remains under investigation. The department has been in contact with the victim as well as the assailants.
He called the video "deplorable" and "hard to watch."
Due to the age of those involved, the situation will be handled in family court, he said.
The department has announced that it will be holding a community meeting at 7 p.m. Sept. 25 at 221 Erie St.
Note: Story edited at 5:01 p.m. to include fact that one girl has been charged and another will be.
Send an email to news@eastniagarapost.com with "email update" in the subject line.
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This was a racially motivated hate crime. Anti-white hatred and violence is out of control in America. Black people are 50 times more likely than Whites to attack a person of another race and nearly all of their victims are White. This epidemic will only get worse until it is confronted. Demand equal justice under the law! Call the District Attorney and demand hate crimes charges be brought against these racist criminals.
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