School Bus Brawl Leads to Two Students and Bus Driver Being Arrested

This is a strange one and the D.A.’s going to have fun trying to sort out who did what and who was acting in self-defense.

It started when a 13 year-old refused to obey the instructions of a bus driver, who was already very agitated.

The driver radioed his dispatcher to get a sheriff's deputy out to assist and then screamed at the student to “get up here!” The student screamed back “no!!” so the driver proceeded to the back of the bus. The boy’s 15 year-old brother waited for the bus driver to walk by, got out of his seat, called the bus driver a bad name which caused the driver to whip around, slap him and grab him by the throat.

The student is seen attempting to break away and throwing at least one punch at the driver who used more force to try to subdue the kid. The 13 year old ran to the front of the bus (which he should have done in the first place) and the bus driver came up, closely followed by the older brother, who pushed the driver, threatened to knock his glasses off his face and pushed him again.

So who was the aggressor? The driver started the physical stuff, the older boy threw a punch in what appears to be self-defense, but after the initial brawl ends the boy comes up and pushes the driver twice in an effort to restart the fight.

Striking a school official in Florida is a felony; attacking a student is also a felony; the students have been suspended from school for misbehaving on a bus, and the driver has been suspended with pay.

Here’s a link to the video of the incident. But this is a story that can have no happy ending. The driver and the brothers deserve what they’re going to get because they all crossed lines that should never have been crossed in the first place.