Safety agents outnumbered during huge melee at Queens high school

Dozens of students at a school in Queens have been filmed taking part in a vicious brawl.
Students at Richmond Hill High School in New York were caught on a student's cell phone busting out in a full-on brawl in what appears to be just inside the doors of the school on March 10.
The crowd of students randomly punching and flailing at each other appears to be a gang initiation, reported the New York Daily News.
Police also responded to a call at the school that day after two girls hit another girl in the face.
No one was reportedly injured in the large melee, but school safety agents said students gave the video to agents because they were scared.
'This was a full-scale riot,' safety agents union president Greg Floyd told PIX 11. 'Our school safety agents were outnumbered.'
He claimed that city mayor Bill de Blasio is intimidating safety agents into not reporting fights to their union, and to give warnings instead of make arrests, even when knives are confiscated.
He claims the mayor wants violent incidents like this one not to come to light to keep up the pretense that crime is going down and students are safe in schools.
'This is a cover-up because this is an election year for him, and he's told the parents that schools are safe,' he said.
'The de Blasio school violence cover-up isn’t working,' he told New York Daily News. 'Students are afraid of the gangs, guns, knives. They came to us because no one at City Hall is listening.'
A spokesman for de Blasio denied there was a cover-up.
'No truth to it. No evidence behind it. No idea where the suggestion comes from,' said Eric Phillips.
Asked whether fights like this were the norm, a student told Pix 11: 'Not every day, but sometimes.'
School officials declined to say if the fracas was related to the incident with the three girls.
The school is a troubled one, and on March 23, three students were charged with harassment.
On that day, a white student allegedly yelled 'I’m gonna get you all after school. I’m gonna f*** you all up' at staffers and said racist remarks to a black school staffer.
In 2016, 64 per cent of students at the school graduated on time, below the city average of 73 per cent.