‘You Want to Fight? I’m Right Here!’: Florida Substitute Teacher Arrested After Cellphone Video Shows Him Challenging 14-Year-Old to a Fight in Middle School Classroom

A substitute teacher in Florida was arrested after authorities say he tried to instigate a fight with a 14-year-old boy in a classroom.

Benjamin Barnes, 26, was charged with battery for the altercation with a middle school student that was caught on cellphone video.

According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, the incident took place on March 25 at Webb Middle School in Tampa.

The sheriff’s office released cellphone video that appeared to be taken by a student and showed Barnes in a classroom confronting the boy head-on and goading him to fight in full view of other students…

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