VIDEO footage of a classroom fight at a Huddersfield school deleted from website YouTube was put back on the hugely popular site.
The footage was removed after the Examiner intervened in late January.
But after someone contacted the Examiner saying another fight had been posted on the website the Examiner investigated again.
The reader reckoned the latest fight shown was a racist attack on an Asian youngster and had taken place at Salendine Nook.
But it’s far from clear this was the case.
It had been posted by someone going under an overtly racist name, but during the investigation the Examiner discovered the original classroom fight was back on.
After contacting YouTube both fights were instantly removed from the site and the person going under the racist name had his or her account disabled.
A YouTube spokesman said: “YouTube is a community site used by millions of people in very positive ways.
“Sadly, as with any form of communication, there is a tiny minority of people who try to break the rules.
“On YouTube these rules prohibit content like pornography or gratuitous violence. When people see content that they think is inappropriate they can flag it and our staff then review it.
“If the content breaks our terms we remove it and if a user repeatedly breaks the rules we disable their account.’’
But he said that posting videos on YouTube showing criminal behaviour can backfire on the people who put them on the site.
The spokesman added: “If the police ask us for information we will co-operate, so long as they follow the correct legal process the Government introduced.”
The classroom fight was filmed on a mobile phone at Salendine Nook High School during an English lesson last year.
The footage begins with a normal classroom scene, but soon deteriorates after a youth begins to tease a classmate sitting in front of him.
With the teacher only a few feet away the pair then brawl in the middle of the classroom, knocking over a desk and crashing into other students as the teacher tries to stop them and calls for help.
The incident was last March and the attacker was excluded from school for four days.
The police were not involved.
Mobile phones are banned at Salendine Nook High, which has the lowest level of exclusions in the Kirklees Council area.
Pupils at Kirklees schools are banned from accessing social networking sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Bebo via school computers.
A Kirklees spokesman said: “Schools’ internet access comes from the council and we filter a vast number of websites at source. YouTube is very definitely on that banned list, as is Facebook.
“Anything to do with pornography or sharing MP3 files is also banned.”
