There are local police departments to handle serious crimes.
Many schools don’t want regular police departments dealing with “their” school and student issues. I think that is why schools want their own security/police. I do think many schools need security on campus but this should have been handled by regular LEO.
At the very least especially for something this serious the parents should have been present for the discussion between the student and school officials and/or school police. In my opinion something serious that truly could result in serious charges should be turned over to the regular LEO for that area.
Teenage boys do some pretty stupid stuff, if he did record and show other students the video it would top the stupid list all the way to criminal and should have been handled by professionals in this type of issue. School officials are not trained to deal with this type of thing and if he hadn’t killed himself they could have possibly done something to mess up a potential legal case if nothing else.
Except for showing the video to others, this was not a situation for the school to deal with.
For sharing the video, he should have been expelled.
For having the video on his phone, he should have been prosecuted.