MILWAUKEE - More than 50 police squads were called to Bradley Tech High School Tuesday night when a huge brawl broke out during a boys basketball game. 

At least 10 people were arrested. Four police officers and at two teenagers were injured.

VIDEO: Time Warner Cable Video of Brawl

VIDEO: Raw Police Briefing by Lt. Morales

PHOTO GALLERY: Of the Fight  

STORY: Arrested Student Speaks Out 

STORY: MPS Superintendent on Brawl

STORY: MPS Changes Rules

 Read MPS' New Ticket Policy

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School officials say 1,100 people were in the gym when Bradley Tech beat Bay View 82-81 in overtime on a last-second shot.

Fans rushed the court after the final buzzer and several fights broke out.

Police officers stationed at the game saw an 18-year-old woman in the crowd who was suffering a seizure. Officers attempted to reach her but were hampered by the fights going on around her.

People in the crowd began scuffling with officers.

According to police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz, the officers sent out a city-wide call to "assist an officer," which drew a massive response from dozens of officers though out the city.

Squads from five different districts responded to the call for help.

Officers cleared the gym and dispersed the crowd in about 30 minutes.

Schwartz said that there were injuries to four Milwaukee police officers and two other people, one age 15 and the woman who suffered the seizure. None of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening, but one officer had a broken finger and another officer suffered a broken ankle.

Ten people were arrested, most for disorderly conduct and two for resisting or obstructing a police officer.
Kimila Payne said she was frightened to death. "I was petrified I swear," she said. "We shouldn't have games like that no more." Her friend started having a seizure as the brawl at Bradley Tech broke out. She didn't know if they'd make it out of the school alive.

"When they were rushing down the stairs I was at the bottom and everyone was rushing. I was scared I was going to get trampled," she said.

School officials were still piecing together the events that led to the mayhem. They say several students started fighting on the court after the game. That led to a chain reaction of other fights. Police tried to break up the fights, but it was clearly out of control.

"It was crazy to me," Bay View junior Robert Ellis said. "Police were beating up the kids. The kids beating up the police.. It was just crazy."

Adrianna Jones, another Bay View student, was there, too. "I was just trying to get out of there because that's the worst thing you could do is fall in a riot like that," she said.

The video tape of the fight was described as both "scary" and "chilling" by Milwaukee Police Association President John Balcerzak. He expressed concern over watching police fight to help the student having a seizure saying, "Clearly the crowd has a disregard for that person's safety and the officers have to physically push and move the crowd back so they have some room to work."

Schwartz described the video by saying, "It was a very difficult situation - you've got a lot of people, a lot of chaos, you can look at that video and see how chaotic that scene was."

The brawl has once again forced school officials to take another look at their security policy.

Students from both schools involved in the melee are now prohibited from purchasing tickets for the rest of the basketball season, the Mayor's office and MPS decided Wednesday. That includes junior varsity and varsity games, both boys and girls. Players will be allowed two tickets per game but must give them to parents, not classmates or friends.

"Nothing anybody can do can make everything 100 percent sure," said Bill Molbeck, the MPS Commissioner of Athletics. "I think we are doing what we can right now."

But some students feel the penalty unfairly punishes the entire student body.

"It’s sad that it happened and the administration has to do what they feel they need to do," said Kyle Brokmeier, Bay View's head coach. "We’re concerned with our kids, those five guys and what goes on between the white lines. We’ll keep playing basketball and that’s our focus. We’re upset we lost the game to Bradley Tech."

The student who had the seizure didn't come to school, but her friends say she is OK. School officials said they were going to take another look at their security policy to see what else they can do keep kids safe at games.

Bradley Tech has been the scene of a couple of major fights this school year. The most recent fight came earlier this month, a disturbance that was aggravated by students calling in outsiders with their cell phones.

That led to a new MPS crackdown on cell phones in schools, a policy that started this week.