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Account Featuring Neptune Teens 'Wildin Out' In After School Fights Pulled From Twitter

NEPTUNE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- An account featuring two dozen videos of kids from Monmouth County beating each other to a pulp has been removed from twitter.

As CBS2's Meg Baker reported, fights that have gone on after hours, some right outside of Neptune High School have raised parents concerns.

"We can't have that in our schools or anywhere else. Something has to be done," Violet Jones-Williams said.

Videos of the brawls were posted on a twitter account and show students bare knuckle fighting or 'wildin out' as posts suggest. One video shows two females pulling each others hair, then a girl is dragged across the grass.

"That type of bullying can be traumatizing to young people, unfair, unfortunate, concerns me greatly," Gwendolyn said.

The account with 23 videos was shut down after the school's principal called twitter.

"We are well aware of these instances that occurred in the past. Few if any are recent. We have made arrests, in some of the instances the school levied discipline," Captain Michael McGhee said.

Superintendent Tami Crader said there is a school-wide effort to combat this type of behavior.

"Students see this, they share it, their parents become frightened.  People who put this up there are getting what they want -- notoriety over something that upsets the community," Crader said.

The violent New Jersey twitter account joins a series of other high school social media fight accounts across the country.

"Unfortunately, this is a bad group of kids trying to perpetuate something like this on social media," Captain McGhee said, "This isn't an everyday occurrence."

Neptune High School has several police officers inside the school and some that patrol outside during and after school hours.

The twitter account was created in September and had more than 400 followers.

 

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