Family of boy in bullying attack sues school

The family of a teenage boy is suing the charter school that he attended over a year after a bullying attack that left him with what they say are “permanent traumatic brain and cervical injuries.” The January 2018 attack at Animo Westside Middle School and the staff’s ensuing response were captured on surveillance video. The video shows the victim, who was 12 and in sixth grade at the time, being attacked by a 14-year-old eighth-grader, a student who the victim’s attorney, Ben Meiselas, says had a “prior history of violence towards others.” Other students are seen in the video crowding around the boy and his attacker. A school staff member is also seen pausing at the scene and walking away without stepping in. The boy drifted in and out of consciousness and suffered from seizures during the attack and after it ended, the complaint claims. The attacker later tried to assist the 12-year-old boy, the video shows, after he grew “nervous that he had killed” the boy, Meiselas...