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An Illinois eighth-grader is facing felony hate crime charges after he brutally attacked fellow student Omid Babakhani on Tuesday. Chicagos CBS Channel 2 reported that 13-year-old Babakhani is now in constant pain and barely able to move, suffering from two broken collarbones and other injuries.
Babakhani said the attack came out of nowhere. He was walking down the hall on his way to class at Hannah Beardsly Middle School in Crystal Lake on what seemed like an ordinary Tuesday.
And I heard, Hey Persian from behind me, he told Channel 2.
The ethnic insult was followed by a remark about Babakhanis mother. He said he tried to walk away from the confrontation, but the other student jumped on him.
He put me in a head lock and slammed me to the ground and repetitively started punching my head, Babakhani said, snapping both his collarbones in the process.
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)How horrible.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... such a brutal assault on school grounds, and with no provocation - this school obviously has major issues.
... that poor kid.