When I was growing up no one would have ever stopped a fight and no one got suspended from school for sure!
Are you kidding?! I got stopped in such a fight (teachers pulling me off him), before I beat the guy into oblivion ... LOL ... And I got suspended too (for about a week, doncha know).
Just one little detail. He was the school bully and he started the fight. After the beating and getting out of the hospital, he never came back to school again. :-)
Good for you.
When I was very young, I was the shy girl who was picked on. But, when I started at a public high school where few people knew me, I reinvented myself (not in a good way) and refused to back down. The way I saw it, I shouldn't have to back down because I did nothing wrong. I would be walking down the hall, minding my own business, and suddenly someone would "call me out" because she thought I looked at her the wrong way. My friends would lower their eyes and scurry away fearfully when it happened to them. If they would have refused to back down, too, maybe no one would've had that problem at that school.
When no one stands up to the bullies, the bullies begin to believe they're entitled to push people around.
I'm thinking that's what happened in the video for this story. The girl being beaten probably was like I was at her age: it sounds like she'd refused to back down. She was either all alone or none of her friends backed her up. I could've been in that girl's shoes, when I was young, if I hadn't been so lucky.
I'm not surprised that there are adults who would cheer on a beating; but it is a disturbing part of the story.