Sheeran’s alleged kid accomplice was slapped with a harassment charge for laughing and jeering at the victim while he begged for his life, the Times said. The teen, who is also white, will be charged as a juvenile.The sick attack began when the victim and Sheeran encountered each other at a pond in Chatham, MA, in July of last year. Sheeran threw rocks at his victim and forced the boy — who wore a lifejacket because he couldn’t swim — to get into the water, according to the Boston Globe.

Sheeran then swam out to him and repeatedly dunked his head under the surface, calling him the n-word, while the attacker’s buddy “started laughing and called me George Floyd, obviously making fun of me and showing NO remorse,” the accuser wrote in a police report also viewed by NBC 10. A witness, who is also a minor, told police he heard the victim ask Sheeran “to please not splash or push him because of his inability to swim.” The onlooker also said he saw Sheeran and his alleged accomplice “pushing [the victim’s] head underwater” while the victim was “screaming for help.“When I finally get to them, they were smirking,” the witness wrote of the two attackers.

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