When an eighth-grader at Solano Middle School began forcing Makiya Howell into a girls’ restroom last month, she struggled and pulled away.
“I actually tried to sit on the floor, but she jerked me up in the bathroom,” said Makiya, a 12-year-old sixth-grader.
Inside waiting for her was another eighth-grader, who Makiya and her family said had been threatening her during the week before Makiya was pulled into the bathroom on May 9.
What happened next — the beating, the hair-pulling and the yelling — was partially caught on a cellphone camera and later uploaded to Facebook.