A BULLY was forced to apologise to his victim after 100 Facebook users staged a rally outside his school.
Halsey Parkerson, who had been taunted and verbally abused by the unnamed bully, has his aunt to thank after she arranged the meet-up at South Salem High School in Oregon.
She had gone to meet Halsey for lunch last Thursday when she witnessed another student telling him that he ‘didn’t have any friends and no one cares’.
After taking to Facebook to rally support from her local car club, the word quickly spread, with impressive results.
Around 100 people, in around 50 cars, turned up outside the school on Friday, with one person even making the journey from Vancouver in Canada – over 350 miles away.
With the crowd demanding an apology, the sheepish bully high-fived Halsey in acknowledgment and offered: ‘I apologise. I apologise and I take it back.’
The slightly-stunned Halsey told local news station KATU: ‘It’s just unbelievable. I now know whenever I get bullied I’ll raise my head up and say, “Sorry, I have too many friends to think I’m being bullied”’.
With studies showing that approximately 30 per cent of all US students are bullied at high school, he admitted it was a big day for victims everywhere.
‘If you’re being bullied, stand up and express yourself,’ he said.
This is one glorious day.’
He later took to his own Facebook page to thank the support.
‘Thanks to everyone who was there with me and my family thanks also to the ones who could not make it by all you making a difference,’ he wrote.
‘I truly mean it I’m tearing up thanks guys for standing up with me and helping me make a difference!!’
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