According to the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office, the six school kids made the remarks in a private group chat on Snapchat and expressed “expressed hateful and racist comments, including notions of violence toward people of color, racial slurs, derogatory pictures and videos, and a mock slave auction directed at two juveniles known to them.”
District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said at a press briefing on Thursday:
There is no question that the alleged behavior in this case of these six juveniles is vile, cruel and contemptible. Seeing it, and facing the reality that these thoughts, that this ugliness can exist within middle school students here in this community in 2024 is discouraging, unsettling and deeply frustrating.
With this I intend to be very clear: Hatred and racism have no place in this community, a