Oklahoma bus driver arrested for holding kids hostage. Really? Most bus drivers want to get the kids off the vehicle. Oklahoma bus driver arrested for holding children hostage while en route. Watch. [00:00:17] >> Speaker 2: My daughter gets home in like, ten minutes. >> Speaker 3: No, you're not going to get home in ten minutes. I don't care. It you think you can get away with stuff? I run my bus a certain way. I don't care what the other bus drivers do. [00:00:33] You obey me. No. Be quiet. Sit down. Sit down. No. Sit down. Sit down. [00:00:49] I don't care. Sit down. I don't care if your mom's there. Makes no difference to me. You're not going with your mom. Sit down. I don't care. Sit down. >> Hey, let me off. [00:01:05] Sit down. >> Speaker 4: Let me off my- >> Sit down. >> Speaker 2: Don't touch me. No. Don't touch me. No. All of you, sit down. You're not getting off the bus. [00:01:21] Sit down. >> Speaker 2: We've been here for like 40 minutes. >> Speaker 4: I don't care. I don't care. I'm not budging. Sit down. They are not listening. [00:01:40] >> Speaker 2: Hey, quit grabbing, you better quit grabbing my thunder. >> Speaker 2: I will time your ass in. You understand me? What's your name, sir? >> Speaker 4: I'm not telling you. >> Speaker 2: Well you need to tell me cuz I'm about to get your butt out of here. [00:01:59] >> Speaker 4: Sit down. Get out. Get out. >> Help. Sit down. [SOUND] Sit down. [NOISE] >> Speaker 2: Mama. [00:02:16] >> Speaker 3: You can see that I don't care what parents do if they smack the bus. I don't care. I don't care if they get violent and break windows. Makes no difference to me. I got somebody coming right now, okay? [00:02:31] That's the way it is. I will win every time. Quiet, quiet, quiet. >> Speaker 1: His bus is gonna do things his way and he doesn't care whose mother is watching apparently. [00:02:50] Thomas Young, 68 year old, was charged for holding students on the bus while driving them home. Young was taking students from Broken Arrow public schools home, but he was running behind. In a surveillance video obtained by multiple news outlets, including Fox 23, the driver, identified as Young can [00:03:08] reportedly be heard given a warning to the middle school students. Quiet, everybody be quiet. The driver can be heard saying in the clip, I'm not moving until I don't hear any speaking. People magazine with the quotes body of the story. [00:03:27] He then allegedly stops the bus for around nine minutes, and during that time, kids can be heard screaming and crying for help. One point Young can reportedly be seen putting his arm out to stop a student from exiting the bus. Banging sounds can also be heard in the footage. [00:03:46] You think you can get away with stuff? Young said, per USA Today. I run my bus a certain way. I don't care what the other bus drivers do. You obey me. After the students began leaving the bus through emergency exit, Young drove to a nearby parking lot where more students escaped and [00:04:06] he was confronted by police, okay. Broken Arrow public school spokesperson Tara Thompson told Fox 23 it was Young's second day taking that bus route. He'd arrived 30 minutes late to pick up the students. Thompson said the alleged incident was unexpected. [00:04:25] Thompson has since confirmed to all three news outlets that Young, who held his position for about a year, has been fired from the district. Police told KJRH that the charges against Young will be forwarded to the Tulsa County District Attorney's office. It's unclear if Young has entered a plea or [00:04:42] retained an attorney to speak on his behalf. I'm gonna go to you pretty early on this one, Ben, but I wanna say this first, there are bus drivers, and then there are bus drivers of middle school students. [00:04:58] And that's a special skill set. Second day on the route. I don't know who Mr. Young was driving previously. It's not excusing, any actions like this. You're holding someone hostage. Well, you're gonna get charged. Indeed, Mr. Young got charged. But these men, these are middle school students. [00:05:18] They'll likely testify against him if this goes to trial. Perhaps it should. There's no deal worked out. Do you remember being a middle school student? He underestimated them, no? [00:05:33] >> Speaker 5: That's a fact. I mean, this guy seems like pretty standard issue bus driver, but from many decades ago, I thought we did away with this kind of bus driver. He believes that in his zone, he must be obeyed using the language of a god or a religious leader, rather than a man driving a bus. [00:05:52] And it's an important service you provide driving a bus. But one of the key tenets is not holding the kids hostage. I should add a question now, I guess, to the test to become a bus driver, could you ever see yourself holding the kids hostage? Could you see yourself keeping the kids on the bus? [00:06:08] And also, as an unrelated yet related note, maybe you don't name your middle school Broken Arrow Middle School. It just sounds like a depressing name for a school. It sounds more like a recovery home. it's not even a positive enough to be the name of a recovery home. [00:06:24] Broken Arrow sounds like a halfway home on the way into a rehab. It's like you're about to be in rehab soon, but we're gonna give you a quick stay at Broken Arrow to ease the transition into rehab. So the whole thing has got a very negative vibe to it. And if I were a bus driver, [00:06:39] I promise you one thing I would not keep kids hostage in nearly any occasion. Probably no occasion. >> Speaker 1: Yeah and it starts with one thing that every bus driver has to understand in 2023, middle school students give zero F's, if you will. [00:06:57] And so you're not going to hold them and get them to obey anything. Except for the latest TikTok trend.