COPS ARREST FOOLS WHO VIDEOTAPED BOY BEING STRIPPED & BEATEN OVER $20

A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with a viral video that showed a Newark teenager being forced to strip naked and whipped mercilessly with a belt over a $20 debt.

The alleged assailant was already in custody at the Essex County jail and identified as part of the investigation into the video, which garnered national attention and drew more than 40,000 views on YouTube. He was charged with robbery, conspiracy and aggravated assault.

The alleged cameraman and a third person who was present for the attack were also arrested, and the girlfriend of one of the suspects was arrested on an unrelated drug charge, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

The shocking NFSW video is barely two-and-a-half minutes long, but each second is more disturbing than the one before.
Somewhere in Newark, a teenage boy can be seen removing his clothes, stripping completely naked while he is berated and cursed at by another man in a black hat and black T-shirt. A pack of men surround their cornered victim, laughing and commenting on the situation.

As the boy stands there with his shoulders slumped, the man in the black shirt screams about a debt owed by the victim’s father. As the boy cowers, the leader of the group grabs a belt from one of his sidekicks and screams at the victim.

“Where my money at?” he howls. “I don’t know,” the victim responds meekly.

What happens next has infuriated law enforcement and city leaders. For 90 seconds, the boy is mercilessly whipped with the belt while the group continues to laugh at him, demanding he tell the camera that it’s a “dog eat dog world.”

At the end of the video, someone announces the amount of money that sparked the vicious attack — a measly $20. Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio said he was infuriated by the video and dispatched three separate detective squads to find the man holding the belt in the clip, which he called “sickening.”

“You don’t know how bad I want to see the kid who did that taken into custody,” he said. Newark City Council President Anibal Ramos echoed that sentiment. “The perpetrator as well as those who stood idly by laughing and videotaping this act of savage brutality should be brought to justice,” he said.

DeMaio, seen below, said police have an idea of where the attack took place and are closing in on the assailants. Investigators are aware of a Twitter account that has been associated with publicizing the videos, according to DeMaio, who declined to comment further.

It remains unclear who the victim is but social media has offered some insight into the Twitter account DeMaio was referring to. Dozens of furious tweets linking to the video identify someone owning the Twitter handles @440BoyRiqBubz and @RiqBubz as the person who began promoting the clip online.

The hackers collective Anonymous, an international pro free-speech group that was linked a cyber-attack on the Newark municipal website last year, also pointed the finger at that Twitter account. DeMaio said the attackers will likely face aggravated assault and weapons charges. He said the victim of the attack appeared to be a teenager, but would not say if police contacted anyone seen in the video.

For the director, who has a young son of his own, the investigation is taking a personal turn. “To see him stripped down naked and taken advantage of and abused like that, it was sickening to me,” DeMaio said. “I pictured somebody doing that to my son … the people that did that need to be brought to justice for sure.”

WARNING…this video is hard to watch…