WATCH: Video shows hectic bus ride, driver screaming at children
DAYTON, OH (WKEF) – A school bus driver in Ohio berated a 12-year-old boy for almost an hour, calling names like “fat cry baby.” He also refused to let the boy and his brothers off the bus. A camera captured the entire incident before the boy’s father was able to get his children away from the driver.
It happened on May 1 while Demetrius Williams was driving bus number 50. The video shows Williams slam on the brakes, for no apparent reason according to the district, making students scream and that’s when he and a student begin arguing. “Drive the bus, just drive the bus,” a student yells at Williams, to which he replies, “You talking to me?”
Over the course of an hour, the argument continued between Williams and the child. At one point the child called Williams a “punk” and Williams replies, “I’ll show you what punk is,” he then yelled at the child several times to sit down. In the video you can see the boy wiping his face, other students on the bus tell Williams he’s making another child on the bus cry. Williams blamed the situation on the boy he’d been arguing with, then told the boy “shut up and be quiet you little crybaby.”
At one point, the boy called his father to tell him what was going on inside the bus. Their dad was waiting at the bus stop, but the driver didn’t stop. Their dad eventually cut the bus off, but the driver refused to let the boys get off the bus.
“I ran to the back of the bus and opened up the emergency hatch and got my kids off,” their father said.
Click here to read more from abc22now.com to find out what the school district had to say about their bus driver.
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