A video that featured two young people kicking and shoving an indigent man has been pulled from the sharing website YouTube. And police in Wall Township, N.J., have charged a 20-year-old and a teenager in the incident, according to a report by CNN.
The video “showed that the subjects involved took advantage of the victim’s unfortunate circumstance and targeted him on two separate occasions due to his financially destitute situation,” police said in a statement.
In one clip, a young man approaches the victim as he is sitting and kicks him in the head. The young man and the person shooting the video laugh.
Later, as the victim walks away from the men with his bicycle, the assailant pushes him to the ground from behind. The victim’s nose is bloodied when he stands up.
In an apparent gesture of apology, the young man then hugged the victim, only to knee him in the stomach mid-hug. The victim collects himself after that blow and stands up again, but soon after the assailant delivers a jumping kick to his side,
which sends him crashing into a bush.
“It was overactive, aggressive for no reason other than for their amusement,” Detective William Bono of the Wall Township Police Department told CNN affiliate WCBS.
In the wake of public outrage over the video, the Wall Township Police Department set up a donation fund on behalf of the victim, identified as David Ivins. Money donated to the fund “will be used to provide the victim with food, clothing, shelter and other necessities he may need,” the department said in a statement.
