An Indian American middle school student, who was bullied by a white
student to the point where he was actually choked by the white student,
received a lengthier suspension than his bully.
This took place in Texas and if you think the story is bad enough,
it actually is about to get worse.
So in a viral video that's been circulating online, the Indian American
student, his name is Sean Pret Mani, is seen being assaulted and choked by
a fellow white student in the cafeteria of couple middle school in Texas.
So the video that you're about to watch shows exactly that.
Let's take a look at that and
then I'll fill in all the details of what happened afterwards.
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>> So it turns out that Shaan's parents were contacted.
Shaan is the Indian American kid that you see in the video.
They were contacted by the school and
informed their son had been involved in an altercation with another student.
The school allegedly found Shaan to be at fault.
He received a three-day-in school suspension as punishment,
while the aggressor only received one day.
In fact a user on Facebook claiming to have spoken to Shaan's
mother said that the victim and bully were placed in the same
room in school suspension for two days in a row basically.
By the way the bully allegedly said that he felt no regret for
what he did, which is, I mean incredibly, isn't it mind blowing?
And it turns out that the white student has a well connected father and
that might have played a role in the school's decision
to dole out a stricter punishment for the victim in this case.
>> Yeah. So the dad even ran for the school board.
He didn't win, but he apparently had a lot of contacts and
he apparently contacted them etcetera.
So there's a lot of news coming out about this story in Texas.
And that side is now starting to smear the South Asian kid, okay?
And they're saying he said mean things to the kid earlier.
Now, okay.
His side is saying that's not remotely true.
They're doing like now like weirdo negative campaigning against this
poor kid, right?
But guys, let's just assume for a second that it is true.
And assume you're the administrator.
I'll do likewise, okay?
They come to my office.
The video obviously exists, it's on social media, you can see it on twitter, right?
It's about your school.
This has got an unbelievable attention.
So they all know the video, right?
And you bring it to me and you say, no, it's okay.
The Indian kids has said mean things about the white kid.
So would any of you say, then that's okay.
>> Yeah, choke him out.
>> Yeah, go ahead and choke him and attack him etcetera.
And what he said to hurt your feelings, he gets three days suspension and
you only get one day for physically assaulting him.
Even if it were true, there's no way that makes sense and is justified.
Look, the thing that remains is, it's Texas and
they don't care about minorities.
And they think, connected white kid.
Yeah, of course we're not gonna punish him.
We'll punish the guy that he attacked.
So prove prove me wrong.
But as usual, no.
They attacked the minority on top, insult to injury.
>> Yeah. And look,
race could definitely play a role.
But I think the father being connected plays a bigger role here and
we'll get to the details on how he contacted them and stuff as well.
>> But by the way, oftentimes that's also racial.
And what I mean by that is,
white people in this country have already accumulated power.
Especially for immigrants, when they come into the country,
they don't know anyone they bear.
And so it takes them a long time, generations to build up connections,
networking, etcetera.
And by the way, that's part of the reason why they do affirmative action because
when black people were first free, they had no connections.
How the hell were they ever gonna get a job?
>> And all the way through the civil rights era etcetera,
the firemen kept hiring their sons.
The longshoremen kept hiring their sons and
not out of bad intent but everybody in power was already white, right?
So that's why even if it's just, hey, the dad is connected and
the kid who's attacked, his parents aren't connected,
that because of the nature of America is de facto also racial.
>> Yeah, that's a really good point.
Now when his parents, meeting the victim's parents in this
case requested a reassessment using the viral video as evidence,
the school said that there will be no changes made.
So the video apparently, the evidence was not in any way persuasive for them.
The school resource officer refused to file a citation because the school
administration allegedly asked that the incident not be
documented as there have already been many bullying complaints.
What we're not gonna document this because there's already too much
documentation in regard to this law student and his bullying.
So we wanna protect him by not documenting more like, what was that?
>> So look, nothing in this story is justifiable.
So in this case, first of all,
you gotta bullying pandemic epidemic in your school apparently.
So you're like, it's happening so much.
We don't wanna document it further because it could cause us problems.
How about you fix it?
And the way you fix it is not by doing a slap on the wrist of the bullies and
attacking their victims.
Gee, I wonder why you have a bullying epidemic in your school when you
react that way.
But even if you say, hey what, maybe it's not the connected that and
maybe it has nothing to do with the race.
They're just worried about getting a reputation for bullying and
they're just trying to brush it under the carpet.
But even if that were true,
why give the kid who was bullied three times as much punishment?
That doesn't make any sense at all.
>> Insult to injury, right?
It's bad enough to not punish the bully.
It's even worse to do a slap on the wrist for
the bully while punishing the victim even worse.
And let's get to the bully's father.
So his name is Sam Wellington, as this tweet describes.
Sam Wellington, father of child ran on Koppel ISD Board of Trustees,
his kid got one day suspension while the victim got three.
No offense to all the Wellingtons out there.
But Wellington is like the perfect last name for the situation.
>> I almost can't say the name Wellington without saying.
I do declare.
>> I do declare >> So but guys look,
I almost hate that there's a racial component to
this story but it's an old boys club, right?
And it really does exist in places and so in this case,
they just naturally are inclined to I know that guy and so
I'm gonna help his kid but hurting the other kid on top.
I mean even if he just gave the bully a one day suspension and
didn't suspend the kid who was the victim.
Probably none of this is a national news story, right?
But the gratuitous, smearing of the victim is what makes
it unbearable and unfortunately it happens far too often.