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On Dec. 12, 2019, the Twitter account American Diaries posted a 21-second excerpt of a video seemingly showing several students battering another student on a school bus from the Hamilton County, Florida, school district: Although whatever sparked the violent incident captured in the video was not evident in the posted excerpt, numerous reports and comments about the occurrence suggested the attack was triggered by the victim's having worn a Trump campaign hat to school: However, Hamilton County School Superintendent Rex L. Mitchell posted a statement in response declaring that during the course of an investigation, the district found no evidence that the altercation occurred because one of the students involved was wearing a political hat showing support for President Trump or that [the student's] wearing of such apparel on a prior occasion motivated the incident. According to the district's statement, The incident began with a verbal altercation between two students that escalated when additional students became involved: According to a statement posted by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, misinformation has been passed along with the video. The sheriff noted that the county has filed charges on five juveniles for First Degree misdemeanor battery, and the State Attorney's Office has stated that this incident does not meet criteria for a hate crime:
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