When school fights land on YouTube

Donna St. George:

Two boys are fighting in a Calvert County middle school. A crowd of students laugh and jeer until a teacher arrives to break it up. Later discipline is meted out.

But the fight is not nearly over.

A video goes up on YouTube -- 32 seconds of personal humiliation for the boy who is taking most of the punches. He has often been bullied in middle school, according to his family, and now is shown being hit in the head and side and placed in a headlock.

There is no apparent serious injury, and the clip is posted as "Weak People Fighting."

It is uploaded onto Facebook, tweeted, shared and commented on.

"I showed my dad, he bust out laughin," one girl writes on Facebook at 5:09 pm.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 8, 2012 2:55 AM
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