Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has called on the state’s juvenile justice system to be reformed after a teen slammed a girl’s head into the pavement near a high school last Friday during a violent brawl that was caught on video. 

Bailey was interviewed on the local radio program Wake Up Mid-Missouri Monday morning to discuss the brutal assault that sent a teen girl to the hospital in critical condition. 

"Well this is horrific, and we’re seeing this happen more and more across the state where juveniles are committing violent crimes," the Republican Attorney General said, noting that two juveniles were also charged in a shooting at last month’s Kansas City Chiefs parade, resulting in a woman’s death and nearly two dozen others injured.  

Over the weekend, Bailey said the suspect in Friday’s violent brawl should be tried as an adult and charged with murder if the offense rose to a homicide. 

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"We’ve got to reform our juvenile system to ensure that these sorts of issues are addressed," Bailey said. 

He pointed to plummeting numbers of juveniles committed to the state’s Division of Youth Services for treatment as evidence that the justice system is not doing its job of prosecuting offenders. 

"I’m going to be following this case closely," Bailey said. "I think there needs to be some accountability in our juvenile system. People are starting to notice that and it’s causing problems across the State of Missouri."

Fox News Digital has reached out to the St. Louis County Police and the Hazelwood East High School for updates on the case. 

David Axelrod, once an adviser to former President Barack Obama, criticized former President Donald Trump on Monday for mocking President Biden's stutter. 

Trump was at a campaign rally in Rome, Georgia over the weekend when he mocked Biden's State of the Union speech. 

"Mocking someone’s stutter for laughs is pathetic and small, the stuff of schoolyard bullies not grownups," Axelrod wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "Acting like a total jack*** doesn't make you strong."

In a clip, Trump is seen impersonating Biden saying he was going to "going to bring the country t- t- t- t- together. "I'm going to bring it together."

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A transcript of Biden's SOTU speech revealed he didn't actually say what Trump alleged was said, The Washington Post reported.

Biden has been public about his life-long struggle with stuttering. While talking about the campaign trail on the debate stage in December 2019, Biden imitated a child he met with a stutter, saying to him, "I can’t talk."

Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders later wrote in a since-deleted tweet, "I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I hhhave absolutely no idea what Biden is talking about," referring to the debate moment. She clarified in another tweet that she was not mocking people with speech impediments.

Biden responded, "I’ve worked my whole life to overcome a stutter. And it’s my great honor to mentor kids who have experienced the same. It’s called empathy. Look it up."