NEW YORK—There was an awkward silence as the children waited for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to arrive Monday afternoon. Some shuffled their feet and avoided looking at the cameras, while others smiled confidently at the sea of reporters.
“I love tortillas, I’m going to have some for dinner tonight,” Andres Valle, 11, whispered to his neighbor.
Valle was one of the winners of King’s County second annual Legal Lives Anti-bullying Video Contest. Two videos tied for first place, with both teams from P.S. 186 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
In the age of innocence, amid tortillas, spelling tests, and swing sets, the children were asked to stop and think about a serious issue: What is bullying, and how should one deal with it?
