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Two people were arrested, including the father of a student, in connection with a major brawl at a high school in Arizona this week.
Willie Smith, 40, is facing charges of violating an educational institution, and a 15-year-old boy has been charged with hooliganism and fighting, the Tucson Police Department told Fox News.
Smith was called to pick up his two sons from Tucson High School after a riot with another group on Monday, KOLD-TV reported. Court documents obtained from the news agency say Smith was advised by school staff and security officials to leave the school through a back exit to avoid confrontation.
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Two were arrested in connection with a mass brawl at Tucson High School this week. (Google Maps)
Smith allegedly refused to take his sons across the yard during his school lunch break.
“If it goes down, get down here,” he said, according to court documents.
As the three of them passed through the yard, the exchange between the boys and a group of students escalated into a fight. A video of the melee posted on social media shows students frantically hitting and a man in a red T-shirt being attacked while authorities tried to intervene.
The head of Tucson’s unified school district, Gabriel Trujillo, told KGUN-TV that school security cameras showed Smith with his arms around a student’s neck.
“The sight of the adult, the parent attacking the student, one of the friends of the large group of friends who were in this student’s camp, if you will, at that moment became a point of ignition and at that moment all bets were ruled out,” he said. in front of the news station.
Authorities said Smith told them he did not want to leave the back gate because the school never told him what his sons had not done.
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“He agreed that he could have done better,” police said.
No weapons were brought to the school’s campus and no police in Tucson used force, the department told Fox News.
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