Related: Bigots attack Pride march by throwing bricks & burning rainbow flags“I hate to see someone’s kid expelled from school,” their father Benjamin Hoffman told Bay News 9. “But you can’t lay your hands on another person.
It’s just not acceptable.”According to the father, Leo attended a picnic at their middle school during an outdoor lunch period, a reward just before a four-day weekend.They wore a rainbow flag as a cape when a male student confronted them.
The boy grabbed the flag and put it in the garbage, but Leo went to get it back.Another boy took the flag away again and pushed Leo to the ground and stepped on them.Video of the attack has been shared online by Leo’s sister Ashleigh, and it has been viewed over 150,000 times so far..