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And a police horse got punched in the face – twice

Amid all the whining from college students about how free speech is actually “violence,” it’s important to recognize and call out real violence against college students.

More than 150 high school students amassed in an Instagram-driven “flash mob” Friday night that violently attacked a group of Temple University students, sending one victim to the emergency room, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

In one incident, police say a group of three that included two students were assaulted by a group of about 20 juveniles. The trio were kicked, punched, and knocked to the ground. One of the students, Christina Lauletta, was hospitalized at St. Mary’s Hospital, according to her father.

Temple took nearly two hours to send out a campus alert.

TU Alert: Increased police activity due to large groups of juveniles along Broad Street on/near Main Campus. Police responding. Avoid area.

— Temple University (@TempleUniv) October 22, 2016

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The story doesn’t identify the demographics of the mob, but Lauletta’s father does:

I find out that her and her 2 male friends where badly beaten by a group of 30-40 black teenagers on their way home from the Temple football game. This happened after they got off the subway at Broad and Cecil B Moore. These sick animals held her down and kicked and stomped on her repeatedly. Thank god, the people from the pizza place intervened. They arrested 2 people at the scene. I have not let Christina out of my sight, she is resting. Every part of her body is badly bruised, it makes me cry just thinking about it.

The Inquirer says four youths were arrested, with two facing charges “including aggravated assault, robbery, and criminal conspiracy.”

It wasn’t just Temple students who were attacked: One high school student threw rocks at passing cars and knocked an officer off his police bike, and another punched a police horse “twice in the face.” Both students were arrested and charged.

The juvenile mob was also accused of “hitting and kicking” another group of students further away, with one suffering “scrapes and cuts to her legs” and a smashed cell phone, but no arrests from that incident.

UPDATE: Listen to an interview with Joe Lauletta from yesterday’s 1210-WPHT Dom Giordano program.

Read the story and Joe Lauletta’s Facebook post about his daughter.

h/t Inside Higher Ed

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