Cormac, an 18-year-old senior at Branham High School in San Jose, was on the way to his AP Government class on Oct. 4 when a fellow Jewish student showed him her phone. What he saw on it was shocking: a photo of a group of his classmates arranging their bodies into the shape of a swastika on the school’s football field.

“My jaw visibly dropped. … Within the span of 30 seconds, my emotions from shock shifted to actual anger,” said Cormac, who asked to only be identified by his first name due to the sensitivity of the situation. “What I was feeling in that moment was how disgusting it was for someone to post this on social media.

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