Investigators said the video which was posted in June shows a young man with the word "ga-" shaved on the side of his head, and also shows people yelling at and hitting the young man. According to the police report, someone in the video was yelling at the boy, "You still doing gay s---. You think I cut this in your head for no reason?"
Warrants were taken out for all three individuals and have since been arrested.
All three were booked into the Fulton County jail.
ATLANTA %u2014 Atlanta Police have confirmed an investigation into a viral video showing a 12-year-old boy slapped and verbally assaulted.
The video, recorded from an Instagram Live on June 17, appears to show the young boy being struck by members of his family. It also appears to show the word gay cut on the side of his head with clippers, supposedly as a punishment.
%u201CIt popped up on my social media on Friday and when I saw it my heart was broken because I saw a piece of myself in that," said activist and city council candidate Devin Barrington-Ward.
The child's home is located in District 9, the district Barrington-Ward hopes to represent. So, he reached out to the young boy and his mother, not for politics, but because he saw a piece of himself in the young boy.
Atlanta Police confirm the young boy was removed from the home the day after the video and was placed in the care of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS).
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