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(CBS) NEW YORK Following the March 20 assault of a 14-year-old boy in Manhattan, has violence in the Hip-Hop community reached a boiling point?

Smashing CDs and shredding T-shirts. That was the scene Monday in front of Universal Records as Hip-Hop fans gathered to say they're sick of the violence that has claimed a child as it's latest victim.

Rapper Marvin Bernard, known as Tony Yayo, allegedly attacked the 14-year-old son of a rival music company boss last week for wearing a T-shirt with the rival's emblem.

"My son was approached by four men, two brandishing weapons and one slapping him in the face," said Cynthia Reed, the victim's mother. "I stand here today disappointed, disgusted and in disbelief that such a cowardly act was done to my child."

Reed and others are calling for accountability from the artists and record companies -- or a boycott.

"There is no civilized society that can stand by while its children are being beaten," The Rev. Al Sharpton said. "We can not have a community where there are no standards, where there are no boundaries."

Yayo, who now faces charges of assault and endangering the welfare of a child, is a member of rapper 50 Cent's "G-Unit."

As outrage over the incident continues to grow in the Hip-Hop community, pressure is mounting on 50 Cent to make a public apology.

But some fans think that request is misguided.

"If anything, they should go to Tony Yayo to get an apology because 50 Cent didn't put his hands on anybody," said Hip-Hop fan Ronald Merritt.

But 50 Cent continues to distance himself from the incident, saying he was in Connecticut at the time.

An attorney for 50 Cent gave the following statement to CBS 2: "It's clear that today's spectacle had nothing to do with any alleged confrontation and was simply about people wanting to manufacture a reason to attack 50 Cent ... It's sad that children were manipulated by a business rival for a cheap photo opportunity."