This explains a lot.

Viral video of a girl being viciously attacked by a 14-yr-old boy after she allegedly refused to give him her phone number sparked widespread outrage when it made the rounds on Thursday.

The clip that was widely shared before it was seemingly taken off the internet showed a masked boy, 14, approach a 15-yr-old classmate in an Upper Manhattan neighborhood on Monday.

According to the girl’s mother, Lucinda Arroyo, the boy had been harassing her daughter for weeks at school before the violent encounter, and she is lucky to be alive after the attack.

After several attempts to get her attention and reportedly her phone number, the boy repeatedly blocks her path as she allegedly told him to “get the f–k” away from her. He responded by picking her up (judging from the video and photos, she is a very small-framed girl) and body slamming her into the pavement before stomping on her head.

“She’s very upset that her whole life has been completely flipped upside down right now,” the mom told the New York Post in an exclusive interview.

“This is not even bullying; this is outright assault. And he could have killed her,” she continued, telling the Post that her daughter will not be going back to her school where the boy is known to be “bad news.”

As for the boys’ mother, Selma Allen, … she thinks her violent son is not the “bully.”

“She was being a bully to him, that’s it,” Allen told The Post, who described her son as a “quiet” and “humble Christian” who “doesn’t provoke nobody.”

“He’s been complaining about her. I bring it to the principal’s attention but he don’t address it. The way my son is being bullied, he doesn’t want to go to school.”

“It’s retaliation because she pushed him first,” Allen said, telling the Post that she has additional video to prove it, but didn’t share the alleged video.

“He don’t provoke nobody. But if you provoke him, he will lash out,” she said.

Arroyo’s daughter, who woke up in the ambulance after the attack, was left with “a concussion, bleeding, a potential brain injury, crushing headaches and a twisted neck,” she told the Post, adding that her daughter will need “ongoing physical therapy.”

Plenty of X users weren’t surprised by the enabling response from the suspect’s mother:

Called it. “He’s a quiet boy who doesn’t provoke nobody”

According to his mother, he is the victim and that tiny girl was bullying him. Does anybody actually believe that after watching the clip. You can’t make this up. https://t.co/gVbn3gac0n pic.twitter.com/FlaWvZm8So

— Politi_Rican (@TheRicanMemes) April 24, 2026

and that’s why he has no respect for anybody else. his mamma makes excuses for him instead of holding him accountable.

— Ryan B (@Network_Guy8) April 24, 2026

The parents ARE THE PROBLEM.

Hes underage and they are the root cause clearly. Look at them defend what he did.

I say lock them up with him!

— WokeRepellant (@WokeRepellant) April 24, 2026

A “humble Christian”? I know mothers will always stick up for their son, but come on!

— JustSoYouKnow✝️ (@JSYKRobert) April 24, 2026

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