LAUDERDALE LAKES, FLA. (WSVN) - Complete mayhem on the campus of a Lauderdale Lakes school left several people in terms of medical treatment.
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue units responded to Boyd Anderson High School, located at 3050 NW 41st St., Friday afternoon.
According to Broward County Public Schools, five students and a staff member were treated by paramedics after someone discharged pepper spray when a fight broke out in the courtyard of the school during the lunch hour.
Videos sent to 7News showed a mob of students in the hallways, while another one showed deputies trying to bring order.
School district officials said the initial fight seemed to seemed to morph into a series of fights, and at one point, someone deployed the pepper spray.
“They just started a fight, one on one, but everybody just started getting inside, so they just started fighting,” said a student
“I was upstairs, kind of just watching. There were maybe 12, 13 type police cars,” said student. “It was crazy. People were getting pepper-sprayed, all of that.”
“It was crazy. It was like multiple, multiple fights,” said another student.
“People throwing water bottles and stuff, and I’m over here talking to my best friend, just like, ‘Why they being messy for, like what’s going on?'” said a third student.
“There was a total of, like, around 12 fights that happened,” said a fourth student.
“And then, next thing I know, everyone was running towards this giant crowd, and then, like, 20 seconds later, everyone started running back,” said a fifth student.
Cellphone video showed deputies taking down one student, and another teen appeared to be knocked unconscious.
One student said she got hit with some of the pepper spray.
“So, my throat was burning,” she said.
Concerned parent Delroy Smith also weighed in on the fights.
“It goes back to home training. If you train your kids or grow them into where they should grow, this wouldn’t happen,” he said.
It’s unclear what triggered the initial altercation and whether it was a deputy or a student who used the pepper spray.
7Skyforce hovered over the scene, where students were seen being attended to by paramedics who washed their faces.
The students were treated at the scene, and there were no transports to the hospital.
No serious injuries were reported.
School administrators are working with BSO to determine what led up to the fight, as well as those who were involved in the fight and who deployed the pepper spray.
It’s unclear whether or not anyone was detained or what disciplinary measures will be taken to those students involved, as authorities continue to investigate.
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