Weird. I used a gift link since I’m a paying subscriber. I’ve updated with a new link.
Incident started ~7 years ago when a boy and some friends started a separate private Instagram account from their main ones for a dozen or so of them to share offensive memes, some of them clearly racists and hateful (making light of lynchings for example) and in a some cases specifically referencing other students at the school who were black women. Others found out and got picks of the content and it quickly blew up in the community and broader media. The school suspended the students who were members of the group but hadn’t actively posted and never let the main posters return. By the time the subscribers returned from suspension, there was mass student rallies against them to the point that they became trapped in the school because they couldn’t safely leave and when the school tried to sneak them out the back the crowd found out and physically assaulted some of the students and their parents. The article had interviews with many of the women victimized by the posts and both the posters and subscribers and their feelings years later after the last of the resulting lawsuits has run its course (after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal).