9 teen thugs brutally beat up lone male after victim defended bullied female at Florida high school, cops say



Nine male teens brutally beat up a lone male victim after he defended a bullied female at a Florida high school, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said.

The 17-year-old male victim of the beatdown was having lunch Friday with his girlfriend in the cafeteria at Harmony High School in St. Cloud when they saw another female being bullied, officials said, adding that carrots were being thrown at her.

'This victim did the right thing by standing up for another student being bullied. He is the brave one; the nine teens that chose violence against him are the cowards.'

The male victim told the suspects to stop throwing food at the female, officials said, and two males argued with the victim and his girlfriend.

The male victim then tried to de-escalate the situation by leaving the area with his girlfriend, authorities said.

But just after 2:30 p.m. the same day, deputies responded to reports of an off-campus physical altercation, officials said.

The male victim was walking to his car when one of the suspects, a 16-year-old, struck him, authorities said.

With that, the other eight suspects — ages 14 through 18 — repeatedly threw punches at the victim’s face and head, leaving him bloodied and injured, officials said.

The victim's mother took him to a hospital, and he received 11 stitches to close the wounds in his face, authorities said.

Deputies received a cellphone video of the beatdown, officials said, adding that the clip was used to identify all the suspects.

Deputies on Wednesday went to Harmony High School and arrested the nine male students who participated in the crime, officials said, adding that all nine were charged with felony aggravated battery and felony inciting a riot.

Two 18-year-olds — Quianelle Antonio Reyes-Cintron and Brian Alexander Ramirez — were booked into the Osceola County Jail, officials said, while the seven minor suspects were taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center.

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Officials said Sheriff Chris Blackmon wants to send a message to all students attending public or private schools in the county. “If you put your hands on another student on or off campus, deputies will arrest you. This victim did the right thing by standing up for another student being bullied. He is the brave one; the nine teens that chose violence against him are the cowards.”

Osceola School District Superintendent Mark Shanoff added the following, authorities said: "Let me be clear: physical intimidation, threats, or acts of violence of any kind will not be tolerated in our schools or in our community, whether on or off campus. Such behavior is fundamentally inconsistent with the values of our school district and the standards of conduct we expect from every student. We take these matters seriously, and there must be accountability when those expectations are violated. I am grateful for our tremendous partnership with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office and our law enforcement partners, whose collaboration is essential to maintaining safe communities and ensuring our students are held to the highest standards of respect, responsibility, and personal conduct.”

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Child reportedly arrested for murder after death of 12-year-old girl who protected her sister amid alleged bullying incident



A child reportedly has been arrested for murder in connection with the death of a 12-year-old girl who was protecting her sister amid an alleged bullying incident at a Los Angeles school.

KCBS-TV said the Los Angeles Police Department did not provide many details about the individual arrested, stating only that the person is a minor arrested for murder. KNBC-TV said police noted the arrest Thursday.

'On the afternoon of Feb. 17, Khimberly was trying to protect her sister. She stepped in when the school didn’t.'

The family of Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa, the girl who died, said she was struck in the head with a metal bottle at Reseda Charter High School on Feb. 17, KCBS reported.

Days after the incident, Khimberly was rushed to a hospital, where doctors discovered severe bleeding in her brain, KCBS said.

She spent days in a coma and underwent surgery, but Khimberly died at a hospital in late February, her mother told KNBC.

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The victim's family said she was trying to protect her sister amid an alleged bullying incident, KNBC reported.

"I'm devastated. I'm full of pain, thinking about how I will never see my daughter again," Elma Chuquipa, Khimberly's mother, told KNBC in Spanish.

The victim's family filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District in March, accusing the district of failing to protect students from bullying, KNBC reported.

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“On the afternoon of Feb. 17, Khimberly was trying to protect her sister. She stepped in when the school didn’t,” Robert Glassman, the family’s attorney, said during news conference last month, KNBC noted. “This tragedy really highlights and underscores the very real and very devastating consequences of unchecked bullying.”

What's more, the family alleged that Khimberly's sister had been bullied prior to the February incident, but the school “did not do anything," KNBC added.

In addition, the family said that despite numerous attempts to get more information about what led to the February attack against Khimberly, the LAUSD refused to share details, KNBC reported.

The LAUSD said in a February statement that the incident "deeply saddened" administrators, KCBS noted.

"Our thoughts and condolences are with the student's family, friends, and the entire school community," a district spokesperson said, according to KCBS. "The District takes the safety and well-being of our students very seriously. We are currently cooperating with law enforcement in connection with this incident."

Police confirmed last month that a homicide investigation was under way following Khimberly’s death, KNBC said.

"This arrest is an important step toward accountability, but it does not change the bigger truth: this tragedy was entirely preventable," Glassman wrote in a statement, according to KCBS.

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12-year-old Florida girl posts 'detailed manifesto' about conducting mass shooting at middle school over bullying: Cops



A 12-year-old Florida girl was arrested after she posted online a "detailed manifesto" about carrying out a mass shooting at a middle school due to bullying, authorities said.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said it got word overnight Monday about the manifesto "describing at length a plan to carry out a mass shooting at Southwestern Middle School due to bullying. Deputies acted quickly to investigate the threat and identify the student responsible."

When detectives spoke with the suspect, she first denied any involvement but later admitted to making the plan and posting it online, the station said.

The school is in DeLand, which is about 45 minutes north of Orlando.

The student was "placed under arrest for making written threats to kill and misuse of a 2-way communications device," the sheriff's office added.

Blaze News is not naming or showing the face of the suspect due to her age.

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Image source: Volusia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office

According to WOFL-TV, a friend gave the tipster the information about the manifesto, and the tipster wanted to report the information.

The station said the mass shooting plan was posted to a website — but while the plan had been taken down, the comments and username remained, the station said.

Investigators traced the IP address to DeLand and identified the suspect — a student at Southwestern Middle School, WOFL said.

Citing the arrest affidavit, the station noted that the mass shooting plan detailed when to arrive at school, where to meet up, what time to start the shooting — and even identified a teacher who "gave me an F- on my test" and named students.

WOFL said that when investigators spoke with the teacher in question, she looked at her grades to see which students had received an F, and investigators verified that the suspect was one of those students.

The station, citing the affidavit, said investigators also asked the student named in the plan if there were any students who made fun of him or didn't like him — and he recalled the suspect, who was in his math class.

Investigators also spoke with the boy whom the suspect said would help her with her plan, WOFL said, and the boy later admitted his friend — the suspect — was the one who made the plan to shoot up the school.

When detectives spoke with the suspect, she first denied any involvement but later admitted to making the plan and posting it online, the station said.

Deputies arrested the suspect around 1:30 a.m. Monday, WOFL reported, adding that she soon was taken to the Volusia Family Resource Center.

Blaze News over the last several months has reported about Florida authorities accusing teens — and those even younger — of making similar threats and arresting them. What's more, law enforcement agencies frequently have released the names and images of the young suspects, a decision that hasn't made every observer happy.

  • Earlier this month, a pair of 15-year-olds were arrested after being accused of threatening to shoot up high schools, police said.
  • In late October, an 11-year-old girl was arrested after writing a "kill list" at her desk at school, police said. Then just two weeks later, an 11-year-old boy from the same school district was arrested after allegedly creating a "kill list" at school, police said.
  • Also in October, a Florida sheriff's office came under fire for posting 9-year-old male's mug shot on Facebook after his felony arrest for allegedly bringing a knife into his elementary school.
  • Just a week prior, that same sheriff's office said a 10-year-old was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, a third-degree felony, after bringing a pocketknife to school and threatening another student. The sheriff's office posted the suspect's name and mug shot.

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Black mother, attorney ginned up hate hoax that turned white teen's life upside down. Now Texas judge makes them pay.



A white Texas student's life was turned upside down by a hate hoax perpetrated by a black acquaintance's mother, Summer Smith, and her lawyer, Kim Cole.

Smith and Cole were at last visited by consequence on Jan. 22, when a Texas judge awarded the student, Asher Vann, $3.2 million in attorneys fees and damages from the duo.

A mother's hate hoax

Smith, of Plano, Texas, came forward in March 2021 with allegations about her black son's supposed bullying by a white acquaintance and other classmates.

'They knowingly and intentionally launched a crusade of false facts, allegations, and narratives to create a social media and public outrage.'

After lobbing various accusations and sharing images of minors from the Plano Independent School District online, Smith held a press conference where she alleged that her then-13-year-old son, SeMarion Humphrey, was subjected to racially charged abuse, forced to drink urine from a plastic cup, shot with BB guns at a sleepover, and threatened so that he would not speak out.

"This is not a prank. This is beyond bullying. You are evil. They are evil," Smith said at the press conference.

Cole — a lawyer who briefly represented Karmelo Anthony, the man accused of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet last year — claimed that the supposed abuse at the sleepover was "pre-calculated" and "racially motivated" and alleged further that Humphrey's peers used racial and "homophobic" slurs against him.

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The duo's claims were not only gobbled up by Dominique Alexander, the founder of Next Generation Action Network, and other leftist activists who demanded "justice" and marched with the supposed victim but amplified by the liberal media and in a viral petition that secured over 182,000 signatures.

The school district, faced with intense scrutiny after Smith's press conference, launched an investigation into the matter. The Plano Police Department similarly indicated that it was looking into the matter.

Facing similar pressure, then-Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere joined other officials in condemning the alleged "abhorrent behavior" and spoke of the need to "end bullying and racial abuse in our school and certainly in our community."

The false victim narrative that prompted all this hand-wringing initially proved lucrative for Smith.

With Cole's help, Smith was able to raise nearly $120,000 on GoFundMe in the name of therapy, private schooling, and "justice for SeMarion."

The Washington Free Beacon, citing court records, reported that less than $1,000 of the money raised went toward Humphrey's schooling. The rest was blown on luxuries including dining, travel, beauty products, liquor, cell phones, car payments, rent, and a designer dog.

While Smith raked in the cash, Asher Vann, the white student accused of organizing the alleged attack on Humphrey, was vilified and attacked.

"I was getting death threats from thousands of people on social media," Vann told the Free Beacon. "People leaked my address and my name. During one of the protests, they walked all the way to my house and threw bricks through my house."

"It was scary," continued Vann, whose family apparently often looked after Humphrey. "These were adults, and I was in middle school at the time. Full-grown adults were rushing my house and causing harm to it. What if I was home and they saw me? They could have ripped me from my home and beaten me. It was very scary."

In addition to bricks and vitriol, Vann was slapped along with some of his friends with criminal charges — charges that a grand jury declined to accept and a Plano Police Department officer admitted last year likely lacked probable cause, the Free Beacon reported.

A father's justice

Aaron Vann ultimately sued Cole and Smith on behalf of his son, Asher.

The lawsuit accused the duo of:

  • creating an "outrageously false narrative for the purposes of raising money and garnering attention, at the expense of children's privacy";
  • invasion of privacy, noting that Smith and Cole apparently publicized the teen's name and address "with the express purpose of causing humiliation, public ridicule, and inspiring public hatred and harassment" of the teen; and
  • acting "intentionally and/or recklessly, when they knowingly and intentionally launched a crusade of false facts, allegations, and narratives to create a social media and public outrage designed to torment [Asher] and subject him to intense ridicule, hatred, embarrassment, and fear – all based on facts Defendants knew to be false."
Vann's complaint, which also suggested that Cole helped manufacture the controversy in order to gain exposure and "free publicity for her law firm," emphasized that Humphrey wasn't the victim of a "sadistic racist fantasy" but rather one among a group of boys who "acted stupidly by playing with BB guns and playing gross pranks on each other."

According to Plano Police Department Officer Patricia McClure's 2025 testimony cited by the Beacon, the boys attending the sleepover apparently went outside with airsoft rifles and BB guns in search of frogs during a winter storm. Absent any sign of amphibian targets, the boys reportedly took turns shooting one another. Later, they pranked one another.

Vann suggested to the Beacon that there was no ill will between him and Humphrey after the sleepover but that Smith later caught wind of the events and pushed an alternate version in the press.

The case was called to trial in late October, and a jury — which included four black members — found that Smith and Cole effectively blew up Asher Vann's life with a false narrative.

Judge Benjamin Smith of Texas' 380th Judicial District Court ruled late last month that for their "intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy" against the young man, Smith and her lawyer must each pay $1,599,000, accruing interest at a rate of 7.5% per annum. The judge also ordered both women to each pay several thousand dollars more for Vann's attorney fees.

Smith told the Beacon she plans on filing an appeal and maintains that her preferred narrative is the truth. Cole did not return Blaze News' request for comment.

This is not the Vann family's first court victory in recent years.

The Vanns took the Plano Independent School District to court after it suspended Asher Vann for three days and placed him in an off-campus disciplinary program for 75 days amid Smith's hate hoax campaign. In 2022, a U.S. district court found that the district had indeed violated the boy's substantive due process rights.

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If parental rights can be bypassed in Alabama, no state is safe



Millions of Americans fled deep-blue states like California and New York because they believed the rules were different elsewhere. They moved to places like Alabama to escape lockdowns, mandates, and ideological capture of public institutions. They believed red states meant red lines.

That belief is proving dangerously naïve.

If red states cannot enforce their own parental rights laws, then the red-state refuge is a myth.

Alabama is one of the most conservative states in the country. It has a Republican supermajority and some of the strongest parental rights laws on the books: bans on gender-transition procedures for minors, curriculum transparency requirements, legal definitions of male and female, protections for girls’ sports, and a rare requirement that parents must opt in before schools provide any mental health services, including discussions of suicide or bullying.

And yet those protections are now being quietly hollowed out — not by legislators, but by bureaucratic subversion.

The footnote loophole

The Alabama State Department of Education is undermining parental consent by inserting exceptions into the fine print of a required opt-in form distributed after a new parental consent law took effect Oct. 1.

The law itself is unambiguous. Parents must provide prior written consent before schools offer mental health services, including discussions related to suicide or bullying. But the department claims in the footnotes that mental health-related conversations may still occur “as appropriate” in other school settings — and that these interactions do not require parental permission.

The ALSDE has stated that “instruction, advisement, and occasional interventions are not subject to opt-in requirements, as these are regular duties of school counselors and other educators.”

That language does more than stretch the statute. It appears designed to bypass it entirely. When schools engage minors in discussions with clear psychological or therapeutic implications — trauma, gender identity, suicidal ideation — without parental consent, they move into legally and constitutionally questionable territory.

Same playbook, new label

Parents have seen this before. During COVID, mandates were imposed first and justified later. Dissent was sidelined. Authority flowed downward, not outward.

Now the same model is being applied to school-based mental health. Whether embedded in social-emotional learning, “student wellness,” or character education, the result is the same: psychological interventions delivered by school employees, not licensed physicians, without parental oversight.

This is not a gray area. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed parents’ fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. When school systems create end runs around opt-in requirements — especially on matters involving suicide or gender ideology — they invite serious legal and civil rights challenges.

No state is immune

This is not an Alabama anomaly.

Illinois now mandates mental health screenings for public school students, with no opt-in. Mississippi is rolling out a statewide “youth wellness platform.” Tennessee is placing mental health clinicians in every public school through a $250 million trust fund. Ohio is expanding school-based health centers that embed mental health treatment directly on campus.

These programs erase the line between education and health care. They normalize a system in which children’s emotions are monitored, recorded, and interpreted by the state without parental consent. That is state-sponsored emotional profiling.

Who decides what helps?

This debate is not about whether children need support. It is about who decides what support looks like — and who has the authority to provide it.

Parents possess a fundamental right to make decisions about their children’s mental and physical health. The Supreme Court’s decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor reaffirmed that when schools impose ideologically loaded services or content without notice or opt-out, they burden parental rights and religious liberty.

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Alabama’s counseling framework includes DEI-driven language encouraging students to “identify individual differences” and “describe and respect differences among individuals.” In practice, that language provides a vehicle for embedding gender ideology and values-based content into guidance lessons.

When that content is paired with school-based interventions, the issue is no longer education. It is ideological formation funded by taxpayers and imposed without consent.

Alabama’s warning

If this can happen in Alabama — arguably the most pro-parental-rights state in the country — then no state is safe.

Agencies should not be allowed to bury statutes in footnotes, reinterpret laws by memo, or use therapeutic language to bypass parental authority. These are not technical disagreements. They are unconstitutional and demand legal pushback.

If red states cannot enforce their own parental rights laws, then the red-state refuge is a myth.

Strong laws matter, but enforcement matters more. Parents must demand both.

Mom boards school bus, threatens student, curses out bus driver — then repeats scene at HS, cops say. It ends badly for her.



A 48-year-old mother boarded a Florida school bus Monday morning and threatened a student and cursed out the bus driver, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

But the mother — identified by authorities as Latanya Rowe — allegedly was just getting started.

'These police ain't gonna be able to protect you!'

The bus was supposed to be taking students to Davenport High School, but Rowe apparently had some business to take care of first.

The sheriff's office said Rowe began cursing at and threatening a student on the bus about a Friday incident between the student and Rowe's son and daughter. The student victim recorded video of Rowe's profanities and threats, officials said.

"Yeah, record me!" she yelled to start things off. "I know where you live!"

She also cursed out the bus driver, accusing him of not "handling the situation" between her kids and the student, authorities said.

The bus driver told Rowe to get off the bus, but she refused, officials said, adding that when he told her he was contacting law enforcement, she left.

The sheriff's office said Rowe's actions caused the bus to be delayed by about 50 minutes.

Before the clip ended, Rowe was heard hollering — apparently at the student — that "these police ain't gonna be able to protect you!"

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The sheriff's office said that when deputies went to Rowe's home, she told them through her Ring camera that she was at the high school.

Indeed, the two school resource deputies went to the high school's front office where they found Rowe cursing, yelling, and causing a disturbance, officials said. When the deputies attempted to take Rowe into custody, she resisted, the sheriff's office said.

What's more, Rowe's daughter was standing nearby and was told multiple times to move back, officials said, adding that she repeatedly refused and told deputies that she wanted to go to jail too. The sheriff's office said she was taken into custody for violation of the "Halo law" after warnings and resisting arrest.

Deputies investigating the original dispute between the three students on the bus — Rowe's son and daughter and the student victim — learned through several witnesses that Rowe's son had been bullying the student victim for a week and calling the victim racial slurs, officials said.

When all three students got off the bus Friday afternoon, the victim attempted to talk to Rowe's son and daughter, but they both punched the victim, officials said, adding that the victim fought back until another student separated them.

“The irony of this situation is that this woman's two children were found to be the aggressors in a fight that took place on Friday, yet she was screaming at the victim and accusing the victim of hurting her kids," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in the aftermath. "The victim's parents declined to press charges and preferred that the school handle that internally, but we are moving forward with charging this mother for her criminal conduct. You cannot go onto a school bus or onto school property and cause a disturbance — schools are meant to be safe places where children learn.”

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Rowe was charged with disrupting a school function, trespassing on school grounds, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest, officials said, adding that she was released after posting $1,750 bond.

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Texan Allegedly Bullied By School Over His Skin Color, Trump Support Asks Supreme Court To Take His Case

[rebelmouse-proxy-image https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-7.10.43 PM-e1739236720764-1200x675.png crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-7.10.43%5Cu202fPM-e1739236720764-1200x675.png%22%7D" expand=1]In the spirit of San Jacinto, Warden’s case represents a key battle over a new frontier: racism against white people.

Heartbreaking: 10-year-old boy commits suicide after 2 years of relentless physical, verbal bullying



Sammy Teusch — a 10-year-old boy with a huge, infectious grin — was laid to rest this week in his hometown of Greenfield, Indiana.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot, composite

Sammy's parents said he took his own life on the morning of May 5 — a heartbreaking end after two years of relentless verbal bullying that recently became physical and was just too much for him to bear.

The bullying mostly was over his glasses and his teeth.

'He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything, and I called the school, and I'm like, "What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse and worse and worse ..."'

"He was my little boy. He was my baby. He was the youngest one," Sammy's mom, Nichole Teusch, tearfully told WTHR-TV.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

"I held him in my arms. I did the thing no father should ever have to do, and any time I close my eyes, it's all I can see," his dad, Sam Teusch, shared with the station though sobs.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

Sammy's family told WTHR others bullied him right up to the night before his death, an ordeal that commenced last year in elementary school and continued this year at Greenfield Intermediate School.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

"They were making fun of him for his glasses in the beginning, then on to make fun of his teeth," his dad noted to the station. "It went on for a long time."

Then the bullying got physical, WTHR said.

"He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything, and I called the school, and I'm like, 'What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse and worse and worse, and it's not getting any better. In fact, it's getting worse,'" Sammy's dad added to the station.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

He added to WTHR that he contacted the school 20 times about the bullying: "They knew this was going on. They knew this was going on."

But district Superintendent Harold Olin told the station neither Sammy nor his parents ever submitted a bullying report, and while school administrators and a counselor had regular conversations with the family, he can't share the content of those conversations.

Sammy's family explained to WTHR that the bullying reached beyond the school and the bus and found its way to Snapchat, despite Sammy's parents granting him limited access to his phone.

"'I'm going to beat you up. I'm going to beat you up when you get to school.' Saying mean things about his [mom], which would really, really set him off," Sammy's dad recounted to the station.

Sadly, in spite of frequent reinforcement from those who love him, Sammy's family told WTHR he became withdrawn and stopped opening up. They told the station they believe Sammy's suicide was due to fear of going back to school following an incident in the restroom the prior week and the constant harassment.

Now there is a void in the Teusch home that can never be filled.

"I always tell the kids because Sammy and his sister went to bed first because they were younger, and telling them they had to brush their teeth to get ready for bed and having him not be there to hug before bed," Sammy's mom, inconsolable, shared with WTHR.

Word spread about Sammy after his death, and WTHR reported in a follow-up story that more than 100 motorcycle riders drove side-by-side down New Road in Greenfield to Brandywine Church for Sammy's services earlier this week.

The station said most of the motorcyclists didn't know Sammy — but were touched by his story.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

In the church's auditorium, loved ones shared memories of Sammy, the station said, adding that afterward Sammy's relatives carried his casket out of the church and placed it into a hearse.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

Everything culminated at Greenfield cemetery, where WTHR said Sammy is now at rest.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

The station said Sammy's family and some of his classmates surrounded his casket as the pastor read a final prayer.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

WTHR said a candlelight vigil is planned for Friday between 8 and 10 p.m. at Depot Park in Greenfield if weather permits.

Help in the face of bullying

The station noted the following resources if you or a child you know is being bullied:

The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry has a full bullying resource center. Stomp Out Bullying has resources for parents of children who are being bullied.

Safekids.com has resources focused on cyberbulling, which can follow kids even outside of school.

If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It's available 24/7.

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