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Massive brawl breaks out at Arizona high school when dad shows up to take on son’s bullies

May 5, 2022 | | Print Article

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A massive lunch break brawl, with a parent allegedly involved in the altercation, erupted at Tucson, Ariz., High School on Tuesday, which reportedly had its source in a beef involving some students who were allegedly bullying a classmate.

The parent reportedly faces a charge of disrupting an educational institute, a felony.

The punching-and-kicking encounter in the courtyard was caught on video, some of which is embedded below from social media, and received extensive coverage in local media.

The school was put into temporary lockdown for several hours after an estimated 30 students started fighting in the escalating incident, which prompted a large police response.

Classes did resume that afternoon, however.

According to a police report, CBS Tucson affiliate KOLD reported that school administrators called parent Willie Smith, 40, to the school to pick up his two sons after some kind of disturbance with other kids.

Staff allegedly advised Smith to leave the facility with his family through a back gate.

 Smith allegedly refused and took his sons through the courtyard during lunch.

Smith allegedly told staff this was an ongoing issue and if not addressed, there would be a problem. Smith said, “If it’s going down, it’s going down here,” according to the document. Officers said Smith was referring to his sons protecting themselves if provoked.

While the three walked through the courtyard, there was an exchange between a group of students and Smith’s sons, and a fight broke out. Smith’s sons allegedly got into an altercation and Smith followed his sons into the area.

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According to the complaint, Smith got into “mutual combat with a student”…Smith admitted to fighting with the student and claimed the student was assaulting his son, the complaint said…

KOLD added that a 15-year-old boy was charged with disorderly conduct-fighting.

The Daily Mail published a slightly different version of events:

“The fight began after a parent, wearing a red shirt and jeans, reportedly walked onto campus to confront a group of kids attacking his son. He had received reports that his son, who has special needs, was going to ‘get jumped’ outside of school.  When he arrived, he found kids attacking the boy’s brother who was sticking up for him, a relative told DailyMail.com.”

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According to cops, no injuries occurred, and no weapons were involved. An investigation is ongoing, which includes detectives reviewing all the footage that has emerged.

Tucson cops have denied deploying pepper spray in the melee, although some parents reportedly have claimed otherwise.

In a statement to parents, the Tucson Unified School District said that “the school transitioned back to normal schedule and routine with some safety restrictions put into place including continued School Safety and TPD presence for the remainder of the day and week.:

All suspects are presumed innocent until or unless they are convicted in a court of law of any alleged crimes.

Watch a report on this incident aired by 12 News:

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  3. Really give you a lot of faith in humanity’s future don’t it. A father who has to show up in order to protect his kid from a gang of thugs only to be arrested. Why did he HAVE too be there. Because the facility of that school are teaching violence and hate through CRT. Not science and math.

  9. Public schools are the worst place for kids these days, especially in larger cities.

  10. Time to finally put bullies in their place. IF the schools won’t do it, parents should!!!

  11. GOOD for this older brother, GOOD for this Dad, sticking up for a son that is handicapped somehow. We are so “woke” to the alphabet crap, but stuff like this is basically ignored& shoved under the rug as no big deal. Yet, when someone – even his brother, his father – sticks up for him, guess who gets punished?!?

  13. Good on the Dad.
    Government schools do NOTHING to stop bullying. They encourage criminal thug behavior by refusing to expel sociopath “student” disruptors.
    It’s time for vigilante action on so many levels. Good people need to take up arms to defend civilization, because the “authorities” refuse to protect us.

  15. What Fer the pigs need assault rifles? It’s just playground fun..

  18. Worked on a rig in Laughlin Nevada a bunch of years ago.
    Had a regular, diabetic, retired Navy. Got out about 1980.
    He used to get low sugar. His wife, a very nice and utterly
    calm Japanese lady would call us. We would show up and
    THAT’S what he would be hollering,:
    “Where’s all the white women!!!, Arrrggg!!!”
    He’d come around, post D50, nice as the day is long and
    call my young arse “corpsman”.

    1. USED TO STOP IN LAUGHLIN EVERY TWO WEEKS BACK IN THE 90s AND PARK MY BIG RIG ACROSS THE BRIDGE IN THE DIRT PARKING LOT ! NICE LITTLE GAMBLING MECCA TO HANG IN !

    1. Too late. Time for bullets. Talk to them in the only language they understand.

  20. This article doesn’t provide enough information for me to determine who was right or wrong. Maybe the father is easily provoked. Maybe the students were out of line. Maybe both.

    Not sure if “Special Needs” enters into the equation. What are the student’s special needs?

    1. If the child is not able to defend himself and the school refuses to do anything, then it is up to the father to protect his children.

  21. A kid with special needs needs not to be especially bullied. Lousy parenting going on.

  22. Looks like a bunch of young animals need to be in court for assault . Nice liberal government in Tucson !

  23. There is no excuse for all this Damn Bulling in All School’s. This is just one of Many and the Damn Teacher’s are more to blame becasuse they won’t report it. I read that the one was a Special Need’s Kid, that is even more sick. The only reason they pick on a Person is because they can’t or won’t defend themselve’s. I still say Shut All the Damn School’s down and Parents start Home Schooling. This problem isn’t getting any better it is keeps getting worse. I can’t blame the parent. That wouldn’t be the end of me, I will defend my Kid till the end if not on School ground it would be somewhere the Bully likes to run and keep acting like they are a Damn King of some kind. The Parent’s of the Bully needs to be Sued, that would show the Parent’s they need to have Control of thier Hoodlum. That is how we end up with Kid’s running the Streets and carring Gun’s.

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