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Apr 29, 2009 9:35 am US/Central
High School Girls Brawl In YouTube Video
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CBS) ―
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St. Paul school leaders say they're investigating an Internet video that shows two girls fighting in the Arlington High School bathroom.
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Officials were shocked when they saw a video of a brawl in a high school bathroom in Minnesota was posted on YouTube.
The video shows two girls fighting in a bathroom at Arlington High School in an apparent gang initiation ritual.
"When we initially saw it on YouTube, contact was made. We asked for them to remove it and saw it was taken off right away," said the district's director of security William Waterkamp.
It wasn't long before the video made its way back onto the Web, this time on a site called www.worldstarhiphop.com.
The video was labeled as a gang fight, which school leaders say is not true. Despite that, they want parents to know it is being taken seriously and being handled privately.
Due to privacy laws, district officials won't say how, or even if, the girls involved in the fight were disciplined. They also won't comment on the type of injuries the girls received.
They say is that this video is not the norm. Waterkamp said the number of school fights has actually declined over the years.
The problem, he said, is that the fights that do happen are now captured on camera.
"Now when it is blasted out there on the Internet and you can see it happening, it is startling. It does startle you the first time you see it and it brings it home. But it also gives you a skewed perception that this is daily life at our schools and it's not what happens," said Waterkamp.
National numbers show that school fights have actually declined over recent years, reported CBS station WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. But the number of girls involved in those fights is actually up. Experts say the Internet, in too many cases, is helping to fuel that behavior.
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