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A bus brawl is raising concerns with the local Black Lives Matter group. A video shows North Charleston High School students fighting and the chaos only grows when the police step in.

A teenage girl and five teenage boys were arrested Thursday, all charged with interfering with the operation of a school bus. Three of them are charged with assaulting an officer.

Police said they were called to break up a fight around 4:00 p.m. Thursday. The bus pulled off around Dobson Street and Remount Road.

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A video taken by a student shows portions of the incident, particularly the confrontation between a boy and two officers. It shows police struggling to restrain the boy moments before he was taken down and handcuffed. The boy shown is Vonshondas 15-year-old son. He is locked up at the juvenile detention center.

The first thing he says, mama I swear I did nothing, Vonshonda said.

On Friday, Vonshonda and the boys grandmother, Ann, said officers targeted the wrong student.

He was sitting in the front of the bus and he said he heard the kids with the commotion in the back and he brought it to the drivers attention to tell her they were back there fighting and thats when she called the police, Vonshonda said.

The police report said the situation escalated after some students fought each other, kicked the driver. Yelled profanities and then blocked officers from intervening. They said students grabbed them and ripped off their body cameras.

But Ann said she didnt see it that way. After seeing the video, she calls it abuse.

I was terrified, I was hurt, I was traumatized because the abuse that my grandson had to suffer, the cops kicking him in the groin and pulling him out of the seat, Ann said. It was really very upsetting to me.

Friday afternoon, the local Black Lives Matter group was protesting the incident and supporting the students families.

Ann said its a step back for them, but a learning lesson in more ways than one.

Our ministry is out there trying to teach the children that police are there to protect them, Ann said. But when something like this happens, you know, children have to mature, they have to grow in patience as well.

Three of the arrested students were released to their parents, but the others are expected in front of a judge on Tuesday.

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