Their charge - watching the fight and not trying to stop it. But they did arrest the kids looking on, who range from 8 to 14 years old. The police didn't arrest the kids fighting. It showed a 5-year-old throwing feeble punches at a 6-year-old who was walking away. It was over a video of a playground scuffle that was posted to YouTube. KNIGHT: Well, it all started with the mass arrest of 11 children in 2016. SIMON: And, please, for our national audience, tell us what led to this investigation. MERIBAH KNIGHT, BYLINE: Thank you for having me. Meribah, thanks so much for being with us. WPLN's Meribah Knight is one of the lead reporters and joins us now. It calls for reform, federal investigations and, of course, more scrutiny of the juvenile court system. And since publishing their findings, the story has gone national. Member station WPLN and ProPublica investigated Rutherford County. An update now on one Tennessee county's pattern of putting children in jail.
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