CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) – A Camden mother is calling out the Camden City School District after her son was attacked by multiple students in a school stairwell.
It was captured on a video that has since been posted to social media. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened, the mom and boy said.
Nihya Wilson can barely watch the video that shows multiple students at Eastside High School in Camden attacking her son.
She was visibly upset and confused about why the kids would harm 14-year-old Amari Anderson, who she says has autism.
“As you put my son in a headlock, y’all immediately jumped on him…for what? I still don’t understand why y’all did this to my baby,” Wilson said, referring to the video.
Wilson said she is considering having her son change schools because she’s concerned this could happen again.
District officials confirmed the incident happened around 11:40 a.m. Monday after a fire drill.
“I started talking to myself then one of the boys that attacked me thought I was talking to him,” Amari said. “He said, ‘Who are you talking to?’ I said, ‘No one,’ then he got heated. I got heated and he said he was trying to fight me.”