The mother of the 14-year-old boy arrested for body-slamming and stomping on a teenage girl's head in East Harlem has publicly defended her son, insisting the victim was the one doing the bullying. Selma Allen spoke to reporters after her son's appearance at Manhattan juvenile court on Thursday, where he was remanded into custody following his arrest on assault charges.
Allen's account stands in direct contradiction to what is visible in the widely circulated footage, which shows her son blocking the 15-year-old girl in a crosswalk near East 107th Street and Third Avenue on 20 April, moments before he lifted her and slammed her onto the pavement before stomping on her head.
