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The short video, filmed in slow-motion, showed a man - identified by a co-worker as "Mark" - who seemed distracted as a juvenile male winds up and punches him in the jaw. The man reels from the punch, and is then pursued by another juvenile, who punches him in the side of the head.
It's yet unknown who originally posted the video on Facebook, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Gerald Andrews, the man's co-worker, said he posted the video to his Facebook page to call attention to what happened.
"He keeps that smile on his face. He wants to talk sports. He's a good guy," Andrews told the Inquirer of Mark, his co-worker at a ShopRite in Philadelphia.
"It's heartbreaking," Andrews added.
Philadelphia police are seeking the public's help in identifying the five male youths in the video, according to reports.
"Obviously, what is depicted in the video is very disturbing," said police spokesman Segeant Eric Gripp, according to the Inquirer. "We would implore anyone who has info on the video, or who knows the identity of the victim to reach out to police."
As of late Monday, the video had been viewed more than 100,000 times, according to reports.
The attack comes about a month after a Delaware man was caught on surveillance video punching a man with cerebral palsy at a gas station outside of Philadelphia. The attacker was arrested earlier this month, according to AP.
Reader Comments
Everything is a business model for this government now. The Judicial System seems to only exist to exploit each act for it's own ends, and the ends of those whom can profit off it, the lawyers, the judges, the prisons, and the state. Little justice is left for anyone. Who here believes for one second that should this attack have instead resulted in gunfire and dead kids, because that's what these little punks are, whom then thinks for one second that the person whom defended themselves wouldn't then have been arrested, imprisoned, and charged with some felony? That the propaganda media would be labeling you, or inflaming the situation with made up stories? It's all so massively screwed up.
So ya know, you do what you have to do these days, and if some thugs attack you and you shoot them, well you flee the area and write it off, because there's just nothing else you can do.
Am I wrong or not?