BLM protests ‘police terror’ after black teens arrested in racially motivated bus attacks

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – Six North Charleston High School students were arrested Thursday for racially motivated attacks on a school bus driver, fellow students, and police who responded to the scene.

North Charleston Police Department officials contend several students charged at them and ripped off body-worn cameras before they managed to subdue the teens.

Police responded the intersection of Dobson Street and Remount Road around 4 p.m. Thursday after a student kicked the 34-year-old white female bus driver while others cursed her out and demanded a “black bus driver,” the Post and Courier reports.

Other students were rough-housing during the commute by attacking passengers and pulling down their pants, the driver told police.

An officer requested identification from one of the instigators and the student was “tensing, pulling and pushing me,” the officer wrote in the police report.

“I attempted to deliver several knee strikes, which had no apparent effect,” the officer wrote.

A video of the altercation shows another student grab the officer during the struggle as the first student continued “violently resisting,” according to the report.

Eventually officers subdued the student outside of the bus, where a female student also got into the action.

The girl “charged” and “shoved” an officer before he pushed her away and drew his Taser, which quickly changed her attitude, according to the news site.

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