Charges filed against Anniston School Bus driver after fight on bus

The family of an Anniston Middle School student are seeking answers as to why a school bus driver failed to stop a violent fight that went on for more than 4 miles, at times less than three feet from the driver’s seat.  School administrators and the company that provides the district’s busing service have declined to discuss the incident..

Three separate cell phone videos, each nearly a minute long, were taken on the bus by a fellow student and relative of the boy. In one, the girl can be seen laying on top of the boy in a seat two rows behind the driver. The girl then begins to hit and slap the boy on his head before picking him up and throwing him across the aisle into an adjacent seat as he tried to fend her off, the video shows.

The girl then can be seen punching and slapping him repeatedly in a seat one row behind the driver on the passenger side of the bus, which continued to drive through traffic. The driver says nothing as the fight continues, and several other children on the bus appear to be screaming and taking cell phone videos of the fight.

The family of the boy met Thursday  with Anniston Middle’s principal and other school officials to discuss the matter, and said school administrators expressed concern that the driver failed to report the fight as required by the system’s policy.

 A complaint was filed friday against the driver with Anniston police. A warrant for the driver’s arrest has been issued.