The daytime video was taped at a bus stop where a group of high school students gathered to watch two girls fight. One female was dressed in black and the other was dressed in a yellow shirt and black jeans.
Speaker Judi Won Pat said she met with Attorney General Alicia Limtiaco on Tuesday morning to discuss, among other issues, school violence, when a staff member told her about the video.
There have been rumors in the past about the existence of fight clubs in schools but because of the silence among the members, authorities’ attempts at investigation did not prosper.
Posted on YouTube under the user name “kay35boboy,” the disturbing video clip was also sent to the Variety by a vigilant citizen. By noon, the video was no longer accessible to viewers.
The video showed one girl dressed in a yellow shirt and jeans, and who is a student at Southern High School, pummeling the head of another female, dressed in black, after she was tackled to the ground.
Santa Rita Mayor Dale Alvarez said he recognized the fighter in yellow.
“I was shocked when I saw the video because it was women fighting. I recognized only one girl. I was shocked,” said Alvarez.
“I know her personally. She’s very feminine. She’s a pretty girl. She plays softball in the intramural little league. I couldn’t believe that was her. Quite honestly, after watching that video, she could fight, but for a feminine girl, wow!” he said.
Vicious
Won Pat is very concerned that the vicious head punches could cause head trauma and is hoping that the female seeks medical help.
“As a small island community, we should not tolerate this. I’m concerned that the girl might have sustained serious head injuries after repeatedly being hit in the head so hard,” she said.
Alvarez told Variety that he watched the video and could identify many of the students and one of the fighters. The mayor said he was troubled by the video and said that this particular type of combat is prevalent in his village.
“This happens in Santa Rita from students who attend Southern High. It’s not a riot,” Alvarez said. “They’re following the (Pacific eXtreme Combat) because they shake hands before they fight and they’re laughing at each other. They just went swinging away.”
“They used to gather in the softball field and people will call me and tell me that there’s a bunch of kids ready to fight so when they see me coming, they all run away,” he added.
Viral violence
Alvarez said he had also heard rumors that during Halloween, kids were going to fight in Hyundai, where big parties are usually held during the occasion.
Alvarez said he personally had no knowledge of any fights breaking out during Halloween.
Alvarez said the viral violence, uncensored, was recognition of the horror of what had happened.
“The one girl on top of the other, just sitting on her and pounding on her face and the other… the poor girl is trying to cover her face. It was horrible. I saw the two girls swinging away and that’s for real,” the mayor said.
Alvarez said that he had heard that the PXC-style fighting was happening in other villages as well. “I heard it’s happening in different villages because they’re watching this on TV and they think this is a sport,” the mayor said.
Alvarez said that he recognized some of the kids but would not divulge their identities.
“I’m going to contact the parents, even the kids, because I know them real good and this has to stop,” said Alvarez.
Police presence
The mayor said one preventive measure that would greatly assist him is if there were more of a police presence in his village.
“If we had more visibility of the police in the village, we can control this, but every time I call the Guam police, they’re shorthanded; they cannot offer assistance. I guess everyday after school, I’m going to have to roam the village. I’ve stopped fights three or four times at the bus stop. And I saw in the video when someone blew their horn, the video just stopped,” he said.
