Police on Long Island, New York are investigating after black high school students attacked a white teen using baseball bats and brass knuckles following a lunchroom dispute.
A family member of one of the students involved tells NBC 4 New York the brawl over the weekend was a manifestation of ongoing racial tensions between the students. Black teenage thugs had constantly been bullying the white teen.
The melee broke out Saturday afternoon in an industrial park following a dispute at Connetquot High School in Bohemia, police and family members of those involved say. Authorities say about 10 students were involved in the fight, with black students arriving with deadly metal baseball bats and brass knuckles.
Video obtained by NBC 4 New York shows several teens standing in a street arguing before the fight breaks out.
One person, who is black, accuses a white person of calling him a racial epithet. Then, one of the black participants can be seen pulling a metal bat out and handing it to another teen.
A black teen can then be heard saying, “Take the brass knuckles off, bro” to the teen who initially had the bat.
An African American, an 18 year old, holding the deadly weapon, starts yelling at his white victim: “Listen nigger, I’m from Queens, I’ll beat the shit out of you!”
The video shows another black teen run up and punch the white teen in the face with brass knuckles. At that point, all the students begin brawling in the street.
Another African-American can be heard saying “I brought a bat…but I didn’t use it.”
Police say the fight happened on Remington Boulevard in Ronkonkoma Saturday afternoon, in an industrial area about one mile from the school. A 15-year-old white student suffered a broken jaw and was rushed to Stony Brook Hospital for surgery.
No other students were seriously hurt.
The school district said earlier Tuesday that it tried to intervene following the lunchroom dispute Friday, the day before the brawl, and contacted the students’ parents.