Cantrell Furr (Special to AL.com)

The mother of a Birmingham teen who was brutally beaten outside his home after getting off the school bus Monday is standing up against bullies, and now has organized a march to highlight the growing problem.

"I want justice,'' 36-year-old Latoya Hudson told AL.com today. "No one should get done like that."

Hudson this week shared video of the attack on Facebook, and the widely-viewed images shows not only the fight between the boys and her son, 17-year-old Cantrell Furr, but also Hudson herself getting thrown to the ground by one of the teens. The blows only stopped, they said, when Furr's 65-year-old grandmother Bobbie Akins threw herself on top of her grandson.

"I covered him,'' Akins said. "I don't think they wanted to keep hitting with me in there."

The ordeal began Monday afternoon when Furr got off of the bus about 3:45 p.m. after Jackson-Olin High School and walked to his nearby home on Avenue T. The grandmother heard a commotion outside, and went outside to investigate. That's when she saw the group circling up.

Hudson then heard Akins calling her name, and joined them all on the sidewalk. "I went up to the group of boys surrounding my mom and I was like, 'What's going on? Why do you want to fight my son?''' Hudson said.

Cantrell Furr and his mom, Latoya Hudson (Special to AL.com)

At first one of the boys said that Furr had threatened to fight his little brother. Then he changed the story to say that Furr had used an expletive when referring to the boys' Central Park gang, Hudson said. She said her son, who just started Jackson-Olin High School this year, said he didn't even know the boys and had not threatened anyone.

"I said, 'That ain't no reason to fight,'' Hudson said. "That's why we have all these killings, over stupid stuff like this."

A fight then erupted between one of the boys and her son. "He went to swinging at my son and of course my son's going to defend himself,'' Hudson said. "After him and my son had a couple of blows, that's when all of them came and jumped my son."

"They were uncontrollable. It was ridiculous,'' she said. "Then one of the boy's bounced me on the ground. It was horrible."

Hudson said the boy that knocked her to the ground had already been expelled from school and she doesn't know why he was even there. "That's why I think it was planned,'' she said. "He had no reason to be anywhere near that bus stop. They singled out my son and targeted him."

The police were called to the scene, but the boys had fled by then. Her son is bruised and sore, but was not seriously injured.

The family went and spoke with school officials on Tuesday, and met with Birmingham police detectives from the department's Family Services Unit today. Hudson said she plans to pursue criminal charges.

Four Jackson-Olin High School students have been suspended, pending a hearing, after the altercation, according to Birmingham City Schools spokeswoman Chanda Temple.

"As soon as school leaders learned about the incident, they opened an investigation. The fight appears to be an isolated incident. School leaders will continue to monitor the situation," Temple wrote in an email to AL.com.

"The school has preventive measures in place for buses. School officials are currently reviewing those measures. For now, the school will ask some teachers and administrators to ride certain buses to assist in monitoring student behavior.

"Safety and security of students and staff remain a priority for the school district. The district will continue to work to do what is necessary to help keep students safe."

Since sharing the video on social media, Hudson said she's heard from other mothers whose children also feel bullied. "I hate to hear other children are going through that, but I guess it makes me feel like I'm not alone,'' she said. "That my son isn't the only one."

She said her son returned to school today. "He was very scared, but he didn't want to miss too many days,'' she said. "It's heartbreaking. He's in pain."

Hudson will lead what she is calling the Bully Walk outside Jackson-Olin Friday between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. "If you are a mother, aunt, uncle, grandmother, grandfather, please put yourself in our shoes,'' she said. "If it was you and your family, you would want justice."

"I know we can't babysit our kids,'' Hudson said, "but if we come together and keep putting this out there, I know it will never go away, but maybe it will calm it down. I just want the message out there. I'm afraid for my safety, but it's worth it."