A fight broke out between two boys at a Popeyes parking lot in Miami Gardens, Florida. While the boys punched each other, a woman, one of the boys' mothers, decided to intervene. She struck the other teenager with the barrel of a gun, pistol-whipping his face. Despite images that show the incident taking place, police have not arrested the mother after she dealt a potentially dangerous or even deadly blow to a minor.
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An unidentified individual recorded the fight at the parking lot. It happens to be located near Carol City Senior High School, at 3301 Miami Gardens Drive. "You see my son being jumped and hit with a gun by the mother of the boy he was fighting," the mother of the teen who was hit by the woman told News7. She decided to remain anonymous. "Me as a mother, I would never hit a child with a gun," she continued.
"They started fighting. The mom was there, when she pulled out a gun, and she hit my son in the face," said the teen's mother. The footage shows how the other boy's mother enters the equation. She has what appears to be a gun in her hand. She then proceeds to hit the teenager with its barrel.
The woman of the injured boy would tell News7 that her son is a "good kid." According to her, he likes sports and is very smart and "advanced." She, however, does not condone any type of violence and disagrees with her son's fighting. "I'm not happy about my son fighting, but I still don't feel like he deserves to get hit in the face with a gun," she said.
A Worse Outcome
An adult hitting a hit a minor with a gun is a serious incident in itself. However, things could have been a lot worse. "Any innocent bystanders could have gotten hurt, not only my son. I feel they were in danger," the teen's mother said. "That gun could have went off when she hit my son in the face."
As said above, the boys were fighting near a high school and they were even surrounded by other teenagers. And, despite the evidence, authorities have not arrested the woman in the video. "I just want to understand why this woman wasn't arrested for hitting a minor and having a gun around so many kids," the injured teen's mother said.
