14 DAY TRIAL // A violent clip posted on YouTube revealed a brutal fight between three girls, all of them students of the George S. Henry Academy. The entire fight was recorded on a mobile cellphone and was published on YouTube, the clip recording a considerable number of views. The two attackers were charged for assaulting a third student and were already suspended from school. Although the girls were laughing at the beginning of the fight, the clip was published on YouTube and revealed a real problem in the US schools. CityNews went even further and talked to the school's students, finding out that the fights are a periodical activity among the pupils.
"Perhaps what's most disturbing - many of the kids shown the video on Monday thought it was hilarious. "It was funny," contends one male teen. "For us it's a big joke," responds another Henry student. "I don't really care." The students explain that fights occur all the time at their school, and the fact no one intervened shows they didn't consider it a big deal. "Compared to other fights that happen at school, this is nothing. We have so many fights in the school," a student shrugs," the publication reported.
In the past, several fights were posted on Google's YouTube and boosted the service's visitors because some users might find this kind of clips very attractive. However, most of the cases were ended with suspensions and police investigations that revealed some shocking statistics: the fights between school students are regarded as a normal activity among the pupils.
YouTube is no longer an online video sharing service because more and more people are using the service with a different goal. For example, the police officers are uploading surveillance clips to require users' help and arrest the suspects.
If you want to view the removed YouTube clip and recorded by CityNews, you can view it in their article.