A shocking and enraging video out of a Michigan school depicts a
white bully beating up on a wheelchair-dependent Black student that left
him with a broken leg. The victim, whose name is Jordan, is
battling a debilitating bone disease and is being treated for his
injuries in the hospital. While the school claims they have taken
appropriate action against the aggressor, the victim's mother disagrees.
The fight broke out on Monday morning, and quickly fellow students
took out their phones to record the mayhem. The fight ends with Jordan
on the ground with a broken leg.
Jordan's mother, Levette White, said of the incident, "I feel
awful, he's in public school going to get an education. He's in a
wheelchair; he has so many obstacles and hurdles in his life." She went
on to recount her outrage when she got the call to hear that her son had
been suspended for the fight.
Jordan, who sits in the wheelchair because he suffers from a brittle
bone disease, was rushed to a Detroit hospital where he underwent
emergency surgery to fix his broken leg. "He broke my son's femur in
half and it has a pin in it — so the pin is mangled," White added.
She says the fight began as cyberbullying, and that Jordan was being targeted for his medical condition as well as his race.
This is a truly tragic story, and we hope for Jordan's speedy recovery.
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