Grade 9 student attacked by masked intruders at Nova Scotia high school (www.cbc.ca)

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A Nova Scotia family is speaking out after two masked intruders entered a Halifax-area high school and violently attacked a Grade 9 student, prompting concerns about school safety and security.

On the afternoon of Jan. 16, Sylas Newcombe, 14, was walking between classes through the halls of Island View High School in Eastern Passage, N.S., when he was approached by two individuals wearing ski masks and hoods.

A video taken by another student shows a man confronting Newcombe, grabbing him by the neck and throwing him to the ground.

The masked man delivered about 10 punches to the boy’s head before kicking him multiple times as he lay on the ground protecting his face. The second person kicks him a few times, before the two assailants are seen escaping through the back door of the school and running away.

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[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That's a lotta words in this article to manage to not say one single thing about WHY it happened, or even address that one might wonder why this happened, or the extremely peculiar circumstances surrounding how it happened. So the boy came to this news group to, what, say "these guys beat me up" and they were just like "wow great can you tell us about what the hospital was like?"

Quite possibly one of the most worthless pieces of news I've ever read. Was it a hate crime, a drug deal, extortion, punishment for failure to exchange nuclear codes, infighting among Martians disguised as humans? Who knows, but thank goodness I got to hear from so many people how craaaazy wacko unexpected it is! Yeah, something tells me this kid isn't as surprised by this as the rest of us. All we get is:

"The family said the incident stemmed from an earlier dispute between Sylas and another student, which he thought had been resolved. "

Ohhh so the incident was caused by an incident. Wow let me nominate you for a Pulitzer

[-] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 12 points 13 hours ago

It's called a publication ban 🙄

Maybe read all those words, and you'd understand that CBC is using a narrow window of law to publish even this much. It speaks to the CBC's journalistic integrity that they are walking a tightrope to tell us what they can without violating said publicatiin ban.

[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah I understand the publication ban in place on the victim's identity which the victim willingly bypassed as well as the ban on the attacker's identity. I would think they could tell us more about the why, not the who, though. And if not, I would expect them to be clearer about the extent of the ban. But yes you're right, I am being a bit too harsh on CBC regardless... Its just frustrating to read that whole thing and not have any idea if the news means something substantial or is a very isolated incident.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It's in the article.

The family said the incident stemmed from an earlier dispute between Sylas and another student, which he thought had been resolved.

That's as much information the average Joe Blow needs or deserves to know.

[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 12 hours ago

I mean, if that's all the information they want to tell us, this news is useless. That's exactly my complaint. Why would I need to know even that much? The fact they publish it at all implies there's something newsworthy about it, but if there is, they aren't sharing it.