The video, which was recorded on Tuesday, shows the bus driver attempting to push the student away from her as the child was throwing punches before both fall onto a bus seat.

According to a report from Fox 2 in Detroit, the driver said the student had refused to sit down and swung at the driver first.

The student’s family told Fox 2 that the young girl was waving at her brother outside of the window when the bus driver “tapped her on the shoulder and told her ‘sit her a** down.’” The student also claims that the driver swung at her first.

The DPSCD told Fox 2 in a statement that the fight occurred on a bus contracted from Trinity Transportation. According to the statement, the driver has been removed from DPSCD service and may face termination through Trinity.

DPSCD also said that the incident is under police investigation.

Jessica Dupnack, reporter for Fox 2, tweeted Wednesday evening that the student’s mother said that the child, who is 12 years old, “was allegedly bitten in the face” in the altercation.

Some Twitter users came to the defense of the bus driver in response to the video shared by Dupnack, including MaryAnn Jennings, who said “that student was outta school line.”

“I didn’t see [the driver] swing,” the user wrote. “I just saw her trying to stop [herself] from being hit. She shouldn’t be punished because of that wild child [whose] parents are clearly not teaching their child to respect adults.”

Another user noted that it looked “like all the bus driver did was hold [the student] and pin her down.”

“The kid did all the punching,” they added.

Other users, including Deettra, expressed sympathy for the schoolchildren involved.

“Hated to hear how scared that kid was on the bus and as a kid I would have been too because you see the driver fighting a kid,” Deettra wrote. “That’s sad and crazy!”

Another user under the name THE Coolerman_13 sarcastically wrote that they were “sure the ’they hit me first’ will hold up in court” in reference to the bus driver’s claim that the student swung first.

At the time of this report, Dupnack’s post had over 4,000 views on Twitter.

DPSCD Assistant Superintendent of Communications Chrystal Wilson told Newsweek that there were no “additional updates” to the police investigation as of Wednesday evening.