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LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — 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.

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.

"There were just so many kids crying trying to call their moms, saying call 911," Ashley Luc

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