Caught On Video: Student Comes To Defense Of Blind Friend And Knocks Out Bully With 1 Punch
HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Police Thursday were investigating video of a brief but wild fight at Huntington Beach High School.
At least three students were reportedly involved in the fight around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Huntington Beach Police Department.
Video footage of the incident has been circulating online through social media, according to a message posted on the Department's Facebook page. The video has since been posted on various Facebook pages and on YouTube where someone bleeped the profanity.
The video has been watched hundreds of thousands of times and is going viral.
A student who is reportedly blind was being slapped around and punched by one student as several people looked on. Out of frame, another student comes up and gives the alleged bully a roundhouse punch knocking him to the ground and almost unconscious. As the bully's friends start to confront the student perceived as the blind guy's savior, he yells at the attacker, motionless on the ground, "Trying to [expletive] jump a blind kid, bro!"
And then he yells at the alleged attacker's friends, "He's punching a [expletive] blind kid, bro!"
As he walks away holding the victim, the hero turns one final time and says, "I swear to God, if you [expletive, expletive] with this kid again, I will [expletive] you up!"
School resource officers, detectives and school officials were involved in the investigation, police said.
KCAL9's Michele Gile spoke to students Thursday for their reaction.
Students told her the visually impaired student was attacked for no reason.
"I saw like a half circle around a group of kids," said student Grant Morel, "and I wanted to see what was up. And I see this kid like getting wailed on by another kid. And I got kinda mad and was ran over there and I was going to go break it up, but then my step-brother Cody like pushed me inside."
The junior who hit the alleged bully is being called a hero by many of his classmates and just about everyone on social media.
Maya Jensen told Gile she was thankful the unidentified junior stepped up. He was also protecting a student who is a friend of hers.
"A lot of people are calling him a hero," she said, "And I would as well. For stepping in when no one else did and decide to just film it instead."
Thursday evening, Huntingon Beach Police announced an arrest of the alleged bully.
They wrote in a statement, "The victim and suspect know each other and have a history of not getting along. Yesterday the victim walked past the suspect and they got into an argument. At that time, the suspect punched the victim several times and that is when the third student intervened and struck the suspect to prevent any further attack on the victim."
The suspect "has been arrested for misdemeanor battery and released back to his parents." Police added, "we do not anticipate any arrest being made on the victim or the 3rd intervening student."
Anyone with any information or additional video of this incident was urged to call Huntington Beach Police at (714) 375-5066.
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