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Subscribe to RSSSix middle school students in Richmond, Va., were suspended after they allegedly attacked their school bus driver. WWBT's Ashley Monfort reports.
Six students who allegedly assaulted a Richmond, Va., middle school bus driver Tuesday have been arrested and charged, according to the Richmond Police Department.
The unidentified students face felony aggravated assault and assault by mob charges, police said. A seventh student was suspended in connection with the incident.
Richmond City school administrators said the group of students attacked a bus driver on the way to Albert Hill Middle School at approximately 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The alleged assault left the 55-year-old male bus driver with serious face and head injuries, according to NBC12, a station in Richmond.
According to the police report, the alleged attack forced the driver to stop the vehicle and call the police.
"It's a dangerous position to be in," bus monitor Hilda Davis told NBC12. "To be attacked like that is a terrible thing to anybody. I feel all these drivers' pain. You know, it's a risk and somebody needs to be held accountable. I don't like this at all."
The mother of one of the alleged attackers told Richmond's CBS6 station that the incident began when students on the bus threw crayons at the bus driver. She claims that the driver became agitated and started hitting her son, which triggered the assault.
Police have not specified a motive for the alleged attack.
Richmond Public Schools spokeswoman Felicia Cosby said school officials are continuing to investigate the attack in cooperation with local police.
"We are taking this matter seriously and are working expeditiously with the Richmond Police Department to conduct a full investigation,” Cosby told CBS6. “Once we complete our investigation, appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. The safety and security of both our students and staff are paramount to our mission of promoting student achievement. The alleged misconduct will not be tolerated and those who exhibit such conduct will meet swift and appropriate discipline."
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Maybe they should build a bullet proof cage around the driver and have automatic locking doors with bars on the windows. The children and their parents should be held accountable!
We need to call the pool man.
Seems the shallow end of the gene pool is getting thick and needs some cleaning.
Really? defending your childs bad behavoir ....I see where the problem is .....THE PARENTS...
Biden is an even bigger ass than Obama. Hilary will be the liberal candidate of choice. Why do you think Hilary didn't go out there and tell the lies that Susan Rice was told to say? Because that's a career killer. Hilary's too smart for that. And Bill and Hilary Clinton can't stand Obama either.
What does this bs have to do with the article - sorry ass loser!!
You're commenting on the wrong story, boy, but it's nice to see how obsessed you are. They must really piss you off, huh? Cool!
Guess what nomore Obama won the election again. This is 2 times now. Now pack up your toys and go home and cry or throw your crayons at some one either way.
stan...Best post of the day. I am getting so sick of everything linked to politics...Election is over, nomore, get over your sorry self.
Of course she's trying to excuse her sons violent actions. He's plenty old enough in Middle School to know what he was doing was WRONG but he and like minded young punks decide to put everyone at risk and show how tough they were. When my generation was their age we would have FIRST..not been throwing ANYTHING at the bus driver, Second...we certainly wouldn't have then attacked the driver in force, and thirdly we would have prayed that our parents didn't find out because we knew their punishment would be worse then anything the school would have done. Today the parents too often excuse and the authorities are left with having to arrest young kids because they have no other method of trying to set these kids on a better path. That may be wrong but we've brought it on ourselves by lowering the standards of behavior across the board. Why not, it's certainly much much easier than trying to act civilized and rationally isn't it.
Sproing...Another good post. Wow, no racism, politics, or disrespect to any group of political affiliation and a good point to boot. Fresh air...Thanks.
So tossing crayons at the driver as he deals with traffic and a bus load of kids is ok??
I'd knocked his frickin head off! Kid or no kid attack at your own peril boys.
Kids today and i use the word"kid" loosely are out of control and still parents defend them. She's scare of a lawsuit that is her problem and rightfully so, i hope.
yet another logical reason for birth control - kids who commit these acts obviously have parents .... who should not be parents ................... now the bus driver is harmed , lucky it is not worse - - the other kids in the bus could have been killed - now the courts and the prison system have to deal - yes it is one incident - but it tells the tale of a much bigger picture - less unwanted people less problems - duh- and yet the GOP insist on keep'em coming .............. why is that since they complain the most about the result ..... why
I live in Richmond and call me racist if you will, but the majority of the crime here is committed by blacks who live in public housing or certain areas of the city. There are packs of older teenagers and young adults who prey on students at VCU and on people walking the city streets. I'm not saying whites don't commit crimes, but look at the video of crime scenes and overwhelmingly the perpetrators are black. The kids on the bus are thugs in training and you can lay that at the feet of the communities they live in and the parents who don't give a damn. As a teacher I see this daily and am in despair for the black community that with exceptions seems to have stalled in place. You can't blame all lack of opportunity on the white community. At some point people have to take responsibility for their actions.
Quite true Carolyn...I too have grand kids on Richmond school buses and have noted where a lot of the problem is. It IS way past time that blacks realize that racism is a two way street and teaching their kids to hate the white guy and then play the race card every time they get in trouble is ALSO racism!
if obama had 6 angry black sons they would look like these future convicts.
Uncle Henry. I voted for Obama twice, but you are correct, he did say that himself about Martin. I gave you a like because truth is truth. I dont feel like your statement is out of line,
To the school district: Lets face it. The district is tooooo lenient. Serious for them is spanking the students on their hands. That is why kids grow up not knowing right from wrong. The school district is at fault. For them to change and get serious would be to to expel those students and not allow them to attend that school ever. Now we got a winner: Those kids will for ever remember what happened to them.They will know that they were the losers and that the school district prevailed. The winner here would be the bus driver and fellow bus drivers.
crayons don't belong on a middle school bus...there grades 6,7,8 and sometimes 9...they would have pencils and pens and even a laptop for school.....unless this was one of the "short yellow buses" then i can see safety crayons for the little handicapped tykes.....
Big suprise, they're "outstanding" Black students. He should have just aimed for a cliff and bailed out before it went over. The Balck mother is worried about the son's basketball career not the driver who was assaulted. Of course when you are a Section 8 housing with free medical, food stamps, no baby Daddy (that you can remember - it was a busy month), you have the morals typical of your community. Vote Obama
atelier! You need to wise up.There's trash in all races from what i have seen with my own eyes.You need to grow the hell up,and get the hell off your Obama kick.
What the he!! does President Obama have to do with this incident? He didn't raise these kids and his girls have never attacked anyone to my knowledge. Why are you people still so sour about the results of an election that is over...OVER! Leave the President out of this and keep your bigoted comments to yourself...No, I'm a white redneck...Yup, that's the truth. We are not all racists and stupid hicks. Some of actually get the fact that the kids involved are the ones responsible for the behavior and no one else. To even imply such, would be to lessen their culpability and that is just wrong. Personal responsibility seems to be a thing of the past....
I agree Malfean. When I was young we had respect for our elders and beating up a
bus driver wasn't even on the radar. Suspend the little b ..tards for the rest of the year
and make em wash school busses.
If we had done that as kids, Our Parents would have beat us to a pulp. That is the problem today, my little johnny must have been provoked by the driver because my little johnny would not do anything like that. Whe I grew up, if you had a problem and wanted to pick on someone or fight, you would not be expelled, you would be invited by our principal to meet him in the gym and put the gloves on. If you accepted, the entire school and the parents were invited to attend. Our Principal beat the hell out of every tough guy that took him up on his offer. Our principal would even invite the thugs friends to join in at the same time. Needless to say, that our principal was a retired Golden Gloves.
As far as it goes, the students forced the confrontation and when the bus driver defended himself that was just not suppose to happen.
What right has a bus driver got to defend himself. That is just part of the job to be assaulted, cursed at, spit on, and Worse.
AND of course it is always the "mothers little angel" that was mistaken to have started the confrontation.
Typical @!$%#s. They have no respect for anything!!!
@King...Typical what? Fool.
Here's a thought...make the little bastards walk to school!
that's not a harsh enough punishment for what they did to this man... a man who was just doing his job... trying to provide for himself and his family ... not harsh enough
Tashona Liggins, eh.
Tashona.
“It never should have escalated up to that. He should have called his superiors and asked for help if he couldn’t control the situation,” Liggins said in a telephone interview.
Right, Tashona.
Poor guy was probably instructed by the bus service company to never lay a hand on kids for any reason due to liability.
And when people say 'kids', Tashona, they think of little kids.
The six juveniles who attacked him are probably not little kids.
I believe Tashona Liggins' kids better start walking to school so they'll be safe from bus drivers "who can't control the situation". Or maybe Tashona Liggins can take her kids to school her own self. Let her kids throw crayons at her, in HER vehicle, while she's trying to drive. Who you gonna call, "Tashona", when you can't control the situation?!? Yo' Baby Daddy?!?
Let those little nappy head brats WALK to school, dammit. If they don't know how to act, let 'em walk!
Lisa..."nappy headed brats"? You just couldn't stand it could you? You couldn't just say brats and leave it at that. You had to make a racial slur just to show us that your opinion has no merit or credence because you are a bigot. Too bad. Way bad.
She probably wants Obammy to buy her a Cadlac Exclade with lo-pro's so she can take them to school while talking on her Obammy salifone.
DT...Still p!ssed about the election, huh? Wow. It must really suck to have that much hate in you...Get over it. Take your meds and attend your anger management classes like a good little bigot.
Inbred bitch defends her piece of s***, banjo strumming kid. It wasn't her kids fault, what a surprise.
@Max^108. True, until someone takes it a step too far, then comes the argument of "why did we allow teachers to hit students?"
What miffs me the most is lack of respect.Parents should be teaching thier children not to throw things and obey what the driver has to say as far as acting up on a school bus.It can be damn dangerous to lose focus when in moving traffic.Then people could truly be hurt.Of course these childrens parents would probably sue the school district for an accident happening thru no fault of thier children. Expell all of those involved and send them to juvee.
Watch the film of the incident. If driver hit kids first, he pays his own medical bills. However if the kids hit first, then parents should pay drivers medical bills, kids get lifetime bus ban, 1 year stay after school and scrub down the restrooms and mow /shovel snow, carry groceries, paint house of driver for 1 year.
I am a school bus driver and I know that all bus driver's and monitor's have to have control of their bus or it will become uncontrollable. Some of the problem with transporting children to and from school is that the bus monitor is not doing their job. The schools need to to have good training programs for the monitors, and all parents of children riding busses should attend classes of how children should behave on busses, and know all the rules. Also, the sad thing is, some schools cannot afford to put monitors on all busses that need them. Another problem is, some of the teachers do not have control of their classes and it carries over to the school bus. The bus monitor that received all that money from concerned citizens, because she was heckled by children on the bus, should have turned it all over to charities. She did not deserve any of it. She did nothing to stop the heckling!! What the concerned citizens did not realize is, what if those children where heckling another student?????? What would she have done about it?? Putting a monitor on a bus does not mean it is being monitored!!! Sad thing!
Agreed, I always thought that woman looked too much like a kindly granny, which would be fine if she's babysitting, but unfortunately on school buses today we need someone more like the terminator to monitor the kids. She probably took the job not thinking she'd be facing a completely different generation from the gentler kids of yesterday. I believe she did donate some, and hope she enjoyed the rest.
Sounds like you are jealous of the money people donated. In the days before "student superiority" we didn't need monitors. We had parental responsibility.
Fanny, it is a sad day when parents need classes on how to behave on a bus. Seriously? You really think that parents are that stupid? People know how to act on buses and in Public in general. They just have lost respect for authority and do not act appropriately. This isn't about a lack of knowledge. It is about a lack of respect. These kids are not "entitled" to a free bus ride. If they can't avoid assaulting someone on the bus, then they shouldn't be on the bus. It should be the parent's responsibilty to get them an education and to school and back, if they don't know how to conduct themselves in Public.
blyn, no jealousy at all. I just don't believe in someone being rewarded for not doing their job. Her experience on that bus would be a good tape to show to monitors on how not to act, and teach them how they should have handled the situation.
Were they raised in christian Jewish or muslim way...... did they follow bible or quran...... few bad apples are everywhere, be it christian or jews or muslims. But labelling the whole group on account of few is just plain wrong. We in america are being whipped up into frenzy by the ever profiteering hate industry which is claims to be our preachers and pastors and yet they do not follow bible by propagating evil and hate against Jesus,s teachings
I'm sure the mother is full of crap. Kids are evil. End of story. I'm surprised I didn't witness crap like this when I had to take the bus to school. While it didn't happen to the driver, it sure happened to students!
If the guy did by chance hit the boy who he thought was throwing the items (just because the mother says that's all they were throwing, doesn't mean it was) then they could have stopped, waited and got the ultimate revenge by reporting him. This is why I think the mother is full of crap. She's one of those idiotic parents who would go and cry to the teachers because her precious little angel got an F on his report card, demanding it be changed.
Ny...Yup. Would look bad for his basket ball career.
I drove School Bus when I was working my way through college. I had turned my life around I was a big bad Biker and rode a Harley to work. The JR. & SR. high girls were always trying to pick me up. They were my Sgt. at ARMS No trouble on my bus. However. There was one Bus Driver who was very scared of his Kids' they threatened to beat him up and they used to spit on him. Well one day we switched routes, with me I felt bad for the guy. The students had assigned busses and if they didn't have that name tag with their bus letter on it around their neck the couldn't ride that bus. There was a bad actor on his bus and he warned me about him. He got on the bus that afternoon and I asked to see his pass , well it was the wrong pass so I told him he had to get off the bus. He refused, came after me and pulled a knife on me. WRONG thing to do I GRABBED THE DRY CHEMICAL FIRE EXTIGUISHER. As he was charging aftere me I sprayed him with it, blinded him and he ws chokeing like crazy I took out his left arm with a butt end of the fire extinguisher , needless to say he dropped the knife and I kicked out the door to one of the other bus drivers. He tried to kick me and I broke his knee cap with the butt end of the fire extinguisher. Make a long story short he was arressted and we had a meeting with the principal , my Attorney the manager of the bus service and their attorney. He was expelled from school , no charges against me and Keiths' bus was as quiet as could be until the end of the semester! Can't do that now day's but, it was efficient!
I'm glad that the student's mother was on the bus with him during the incident so that she could recall exactly what happened. I don't know what we would do without her eye-witness testimony in this case.
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