A 12-year-old student from the St. Louis area was bullied for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat on the school bus. Cellphone video obtained by KMOV shows a group of students ganging up on the boy and yelling about President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall. It appears some punches were thrown. “I saw him being berated and bullied and beat, literally beat,

because he feels strongly about the world today,” the sixth-grader’s mother Christina Cortina told KMOV. Cortina said she is outraged that her son was suspended in the aftermath of the incident, though he was the victim. A representative for the Parkway School District said all students involved in the attack have faced “consequences” following a full investigation. READ MORE


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