I'm in need of some advice please. It's a bit of a confusing situation so please bare with me. The High school my ds went to was a good school until a year before he left. There were alot of gang related problems. One gang in particular was terrorising alot of students, threatening and even hitting students and the reasons were such silly ones such as accidently hitting a ball at one of the group members, looking at them the wrong way things like that.
My ds always kept his head down and ignored it. During gsce times this got worse and weapons were been brought into school and the school didn't seem to do much about it. The police were on school grounds but only a couple of times.it was so bad at one point, people pulled their children out during gcse. However ds left and one of the group targeted my ds in the street with a mask on and tried to encourage him to fight. Ds is no fighter. They said he was friends with someone they hated. My ds spoke to the person they were on about on occasion but never got involved in anything. My ds managed to get away but later learnt that these people took a picture of ds and also was told he was carrying a knife that day and is know to carry weapons.
Ds then carried on as normal until yesterday when catching a bus home he noticed the huge group was there and was told the person who tried to goad him to fight was too. My ds became very scared and put his hood up and moved further down out of their way meaning he missed 2 buses and waited for them to leave before getting on a bus. He knows how this group acts, they send pictures around their group who they don't like to beat up, they never forget a face and always drag fueds on. My ds was never involved in anything other than speaking to someone they don't like now and then. Hes adamant if they see him they'll hurt him. I feel absolutely sick to my stomach. I can't phone the police because they didn't approach ds or threaten him and they may not have done but ds is adamant they would of. His friend was with him but that's nothing compared to a huge group. Security were near a shop where the bus stop was but did nothing to move them on. This group have hurt so many people from my ds old school and they don't stop they continue their fights.
I have mentioned self defense classes to ds maybe. He put an app on my phone so I can see where he is because he's that scared and this group do not care and I don't know what to do. If my ds is scared, im scared. What can I do? How can he protect himself if anything was to happen against a huge group?