Not new. 20 years ago one of my sons was shaken down on the bus to buy a blunt from a black kid for $5. He brought it home and locked it in his little safe. Cops showed up an hour later. Turned out it wasn’t marijuana but was tobacco. Cop said it was not a crime to buy it but wanted our son to testify. Fortunately he didn’t have to. Another time though he witnessed a beat down and we went to court three times before the juvenile perp pled. Scary.
When I was in Elementary school they started combining bus routes with other schools in our little town. We ended up with several black kids on our bus. A little black girl started beating up a little white girl for no reason. Every black kid on the bus jumped in and started beating up the white girl. All of us were too shocked to do anything. Those kids didn’t ride our bus anymore after that.