A large brawl caught on camera Thursday at Lake Worth Community High School has sparked a larger conversation about violence at the school after a school police officer pepper-sprayed dozens of students to disperse the crowd.
The incident, which sent 32 people to the hospital, happened in the school’s cafeteria when a fight between two students escalated into a larger confrontation involving dozens.
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Video taken inside the cafeteria showed the officer pepper-spraying people around her as she attempted to break up the fight.
“There’s people throwing drinks, food everywhere, people stepping on chairs on the tables,” Jazleen Martinez, a senior at the school, said…