another attack on an LGBTQ+ middle schooler, a viral video reveals a group of students kicking and beating a 12-year-old nonbinary student and their friends for displaying a Pride flag at Seminole Middle School in Plantation, Fla., late last month.
The student, Leo Hoffman, was having a picnic with friends at school when a male student grabbed the flag and threw it in the trash, Leo Hoffman’s father, Benjamin Hoffman, told Spectrum Bay News 9.
When Leo retrieved the flag from the trash to wear like a cape, the student grabbed it back, knocking Leo to the ground. Students proceeded to kick and stomp on Leo.
Several students involved in the anti-LGBTQ+ beating were suspended, while some were expelled and others were reassigned to other.