GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) — Calls have been mounting for a hate crime investigation after a student was attacked at her west suburban school.
Several videos show the seventh grader being attacked last week, and a prominent local Islamic organization says it appears to be hate-related. Video recorded in between classes shows a boy attacking the girl.
The school said it was a horrible case of bullying, but others insist this was a targeted hate crime.
In the video, a seventh-grade girl is cornered by the lockers at Glenside Middle School in Glendale Heights – when a boy comes and puts her into a chokehold before slamming her to the floor.
There is no audio in the clip. Yet there are multiple camera angles taken from various students that capture the attack at the school.
“And what’s also very disturbing is that you see these other students that are filming the whole thing – and they’re not intervening,” said Maggie Slavin of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Chicago.