A black high school student from Colorado has been caught on camera punching a white student known for regularly wearing Nazi garb.
The encounter, which happened in August at the Highlands Ranch school in the town of Mountain Vista, has only just gone viral this week after a Twitter user from Baltimore posted it to his feed.
The video clip only lasts a couple of seconds but it clearly shows one student walking up to the other before delivering a right hook to the other boy’s face sending him tumbling to the floor.
Nazi-loving kid gets punched in the face by black student in Colorado
Two Mountain Vista High students duked it out in the schoolyard after one of them who was wearing Nazi regalia struck a pose symbolic of the Ku Klux Klan.
Both pupils have since been charged with crimes.
In the video, the white student, wearing a military green jacket, was doing a T-pose, a popular meme in gaming, but one that ‘some people say has been used by the KKK to represent a burning cross,’ Lt. Lori Bronner, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, said to the Denver Post.
The black student then confronted him, daring him to continue the pose, Bronner said.
In the clip, the two students are seen walking side by side in a courtyard area as dozens of others sat on tables and benches during a break.
As the Black student appeared to walk away, he suddenly spun back around and punched the white student in the face, sending him tumbling to the ground
The black student was then seen to suddenly punch the white student in the face.
Seconds later, the white student got up and picked up a landscaping rock which he tried to throw at the other student, but missed.
Police gave further details about the incident saying the student who threw the punch chased down the freshman in the military jacket. The black student is then alleged to have kicked him as the student lay curled up on the ground.
The white student then called the black teen a racial slur.
Security arrived soon after and broke up the fight.
Both students were charged with harassment and disorderly conduct while the white student was charged with criminal attempted assault and the black student with assault.
There were no hate crime charges filed, however both students were suspended for a period of time.
The fight video is just the latest in a string of hate-based incidents happening inside the halls of Colorado schools.
‘Incidents are up,’ said Jeremy Shaver, associate regional director for the Colorado Anti-Defamation League. ‘As we’ve seen an increase of incidents in Colorado since 2015, the percentage in schools has also increased.’
The school has said that the white student was wearing a green jacket but that it did not have any Nazi insignias on display, although students at the school say the student was known for wearing the jacket complete with Nazi regalia and regularly posting such garb on social media.
A review of the student’s Instagram reveals numerous pictures of him wearing Nazi uniforms and striking provocative poses.