Two Students Arrested After Video of Fight Goes Viral, MPD Looking to Identify More

by WAKA Action 8 News

Two students from Lee High School have been charged with disorderly conduct after a brutal fist-fight at the school was filmed and shared almost one-thousand times on Facebook.
School officials say they’re still working to identify others and punish all those involved.

Annalyssa Konsky is a student at Lee High School and says she saw the fight first hand.

“It was right after school and they were yelling and stuff and all of a sudden you just hear yelling and just see a bunch of people throwing punches,” she explains. “It was girls and boys throwing punches.”

Video of the fight was posted to Facebook and was shared hundreds of times. Students tell us it was all anybody talked about on Wednesday.

“It is scary,” says student Yasmine Marcus. “It is scary because you never know when you’re going to get caught up in it yourself and you have nothing to do with it, you’re just in the middle of it. You never know.”

The video has made it’s way all the way up to the Central Office. A spokesperson for Montgomery Public Schools says officials will be going after all those involved with the fighting and those who were filming. Two students have already been charged with disorderly conduct.

“The students who broke the law, the students who misbehaved not only face consequences from the Montgomery Police Department but they also face consequences at school, says Tom Salter.

We’re told those consequences at school cannot be discussed with media. But students say something needs to be done about what they say is gang-related activity within the school.

“We just had another fight today and we broke up one fight by two girls and now we’re about the break up another fight by DOA again,” says student Shantana McQueen.

“It’s so out of control, they’re so used to the street stuff,” says Marcus. “All they can do is break it up and expel them and stuff but once they come back, they’re going to do the same thing over and over again.”

Although this fight did not happen on school property, the students involved can still be punished. In the Montgomery Public Schools Code of Student Behavior handbook it reads, ‘The Code of Student Behavior applies to behavior off campus that significantly impacts the educational environment, including the use of social media and electronic communications.”

There was another fight that happened at Lanier High School. That fight was also filmed. Both Montgomery Police and school officials say they are going after those involved in that video as well.