--- description: A video circulating on social media depicts the attack title: Student Arrested for Attack on Partially-blind Classmate image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Student Arrested for Attack on Partially-blind Classmate by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 25, 2015 10:42 AM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 25, 2015 10:42 AM CUT A high-school student was arrested for an attack on a visually-impaired classmate which was captured on video, police in California said late Thursday. The Huntington Beach Police Department said it had investigated the video circulating on social media which showed a fight Wednesday between students at Huntington Beach High School. Police said the video showed one male student hitting another male student before a third student intervened, hitting the “suspect” and knocking him to the ground before asking why he was “hitting a blind kid.” The video has been taken down from YouTube but still appears elsewhere on social media… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/partially-blind-kid-hit-classmate-video-leads-arrest-n433441?cid=par-time-article%5F20150925 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4049777/huntington-beach-student-blind-attack/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4049777/huntington-beach-student-blind-attack/"},"headline":"Student Arrested for Attack on Partially-blind Classmate","datePublished":"2015-09-25T10:42:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:15:56.529Z","description":"A video circulating on social media depicts the attack","url":"https://time.com/4049777/huntington-beach-student-blind-attack/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4049777/huntington-beach-student-blind-attack/","name":"Student Arrested for Attack on Partially-blind Classmate"}}]}] ```