A security video showing a mob of students brutally beating two high schoolers in a Philadelphia subway station on Tuesday is being investigated by the city’s transportation officers. <br /> <br />“It’s an outrageous event. This is so dangerous, it’s not even funny,” Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Police Chief Thomas J. Nestel III told Philly.com. <br /> <br />“We have operating trains down there. There are passengers waiting for the train ... it’s horrendous.” <br /> <br />The video, which was time-stamped around 3:15 p.m., shows about a dozen teenagers either participating in a one-minute assault on two male students, or cheering it on. <br /> <br />One of the assailants falls onto the subway tracks, pulls himself out and reenters the thrashing. A girl in the crowd tries to film the fight on her phone. <br /> <br />Several of the teen brutes repeatedly stomp a victim’s head as he’s lying on the ground. <br /> <br />The assault begins one minute into a four-minute clip released by SEPTA. <br /> <br />Some of those involved in the attack — including the victims — fled onto a train moments before SEPTA officers rushed to the platform and others appear to have simply walked away. Nobody involved in the attack reported it to police, Nestel said. <br /> <br />Initial reports indicate the fight started over a female student and that the victims were followed into the Spring Garden Station and someone signaled for the group to attack them. The victims are obscured behind a subway map in the video when the beatdown begins. <br /> <br />The victims, both from Benjamin Franklin High School, have been identified, but it’s unclear if SEPTA officers have spoken with them or what their condition is, a SEPTA spokesperson told the Daily News. It’s also unclear if all of the students went to the same school. <br /> <br />Police believe several of the assailants went to the same school and the district is trying to identify those responsible, with suspension or expulsion as possible punishments. <br /> <br />After the assault, SEPTA upped its security at 10 stations that typically see steady student traffic.
