Following the widespread circulation of a viral video showing a large group of school-aged kids attacking a 33-year-old mother and her 9-year-old child, some parents of the children allegedly involved in the attack are responding to the backlash on social media.

Footage that’s triggered a firestorm online showed Carshawnda Hatter and her son being brutally beaten by a throng of children as Hatter was walking her children home from Orville Bright Elementary School in the South Side of Chicago.

Local news outlets reported that the attack was so severe that it landed Hatter and the boy in a local hospital with serious injuries.

In the days after the attack, no arrests have been made, but much of the community has rallied to Hatter’s side, demanding accountability from the assailants and th

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