It was a March after noon in Rutherford County, Tennessee, a growing community about 30

miles southeast of Nashville.

School was out for the day and a dozen or so little kids were playing a game of pick-up

basketball in someone's backyard.

And then, as kids do, one said something about another kid's mom.

This insult led to some shoving, and then as kids also do, one of them pulled out a cell

phone and started filming.

There's some kind of heavy neon filter over the whole video, so it's hard to make out

any faces, but here's what you can see.

An eight-year-old boy, hands shoved into the pockets of his oversized parka, is trying

to walk away from everyone when a smaller boy, about five or six, runs up behind him and

smacks him in the back a few times.

Then another little kid runs up and takes his turn.

There was a couple feeble punches to the back of the kid walking away.

Some of the older boys are egging them on.

Meantime off-camera, you can hear one girl trying to break it up.

Other kids just stand around watching, and a few of them are also filming on their phones.

And then the video just ends.

It's the type of fight that barely seems worth posting online.

But that happened anyway, and soon the video started to make the rounds, spreading from

the kids to teachers and eventually to one police officer.

And it's what happened next, once this officer got involved, that the story really begins,

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