The video was choppy, but the yells and cheers from students were clear as the girl dropped her backpack, ran down the sidewalk and began shoving another teen against a chain-link fence. Amid repeated calls to “Punch her in the face,” the girl kept hitting the other student, chasing her onto a nearby campus.
The incident, which took place last month near Nānākuli High and Intermediate on Oʻahu, drew a small group of students but was about to have a much larger audience. When footage captured by one of the teens was anonymously posted to Facebook — with a request for people to come forward with information to help the victim — it drew nearly 70 comments from angry parents and community members.
“I hope their parents are proud of what they created,” one commenter said. “And to the ones in the background, you’re all cowards for encouraging this behavior.”…