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SALT LAKE CITY – Utah school officials took “appropriate action” against teen girls shown on video yelling a racial slur while laughing, but a spokesman declined Tuesday to say exactly what they did.
State and federal privacy laws keep student punishment details from being publicly released, said Lane Findlay, the spokesman for Weber School District in the small city of Ogden, north of Salt Lake City.
The white high-school students, three of whom are cheerleaders, made the video about a year ago. One posted it on Instagram last week, Findlay said. It was shared from there and drew widespread online attention.
Findlay said the girls recorded themselves saying a nonsensical phrase and an app played the video backward to produce an expletive and the slur.
NAACP president Jeanetta Williams called the video appalling, particularly the girls’ laughter. Williams, who oversees the tri-state conference area of Idaho-Utah-Nevada, said she talked with the school principal and suggested anti-discrimination education for the girls in the video and the school as a whole.
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