“What a soft world we live in”: Brian Fitzgerald bus driver video goes viral as internet calls out ‘child abuse’ charges
Lily Fisher
Published Jan 13, 2026
A Colorado school transport driver is presently having to deal with 30 penalties of youngster maltreatment in the wake of banging on the brakes to show the children on board his transport a thing or two. The occurrence, which was gotten on camera, occurred on Walk 1, 2023, when Brian Fitzgerald was driving the Palace Rock Grade School understudies home.
In the video from inside the transport, understudies should be visible hitting their appearances on the seats before them because of the brake check.
As per reports, 61-year-old Brian apologized to Douglas Region School Area authorities for his activities. In any case, he likewise shielded himself, guaranteeing that he was attempting to get the understudies to sit discreetly in their seats and teach them on riding a transport appropriately.
Brian Fitzgerald is presently confronting 30 misdeed counts of youngster misuse, incorporating kid maltreatment with real wounds. This conveys a most extreme sentence of almost 364 days in prison. The transport driver is expected in court on May 12.
The recording from the transport was shared on Twitter by Everyday Uproarious and a few netizens appeared to favor the driver on this. They said that accusing the driver of kid misuse was altogether too a lot. One client @2billiondollarz snidely shouted that we live in a “delicate world.”
In the wake of watching the video of the episode and finding out about the charges that Brian Fitzgerald is as of now confronting, many individuals on Twitter concurred that it was not needed for the driver to be accused of 30 youngster misuse crimes.
A few clients expressed that as youngsters, when they didn’t plunk down as expected on the transport, their transport driver would do exactly the same thing. They additionally expressed that the world has turned delicate and touchy. Some of them shared their own encounters from when they were kids and said that their drivers would accelerate or hit knocks to cause the children to plunk down discreetly.
They even said that they would fly from the rear of the transport to the front. Be that as it may, in the video, none of the children appeared to have confronted any of these furthest points. Netizens were furious that guardians don’t show their children enough habits or how to act inside a moving transport, and hence, the transport driver has now lost his employment.
Some of them even said that they would sort out a GoFundMe page for Brian since he lost his position at the school and is likewise having to deal with this numerous penalties. Famous Tate brother, Tristan Tate, likewise answered to Everyday Boisterous’ tweet and requested that everybody let the driver be.
In the video, the transport driver can be heard telling the understudies at one point prior to stirring things up around town:
At the point when the kids jolted forward because of the brakes, the transport driver found out if they got it or not, adding that to this end they should have been in their seats. He added that they would get reviewed on the off chance that they didn’t plunk down as expected. A portion of the children can be heard asking the driver for what reason he did that.
Colorado school bus driver, Brian Fitzgerald is facing 30 charges of child abuse.
— Tai Le (@TaiLe85113799) April 21, 2023
At the point when Brian dropped the kid off at her stop, they supposedly began crying. The grown-up who came to get them then advised the transport driver to back off of the brakes. Accordingly, Brian let the watchman know that the children were bobbing all around the transport and he was grinding to a halt so he hit the brakes hard to send them back to their seats.
Lauren Thomason, another parent, said that her fourth-grader got back home crying that evening, exhausted, wailing, shaking, embarrassed and scared. After she assisted him with quieting down, he described what occurred on the transport. The parent then, at that point, promptly called the Douglas Area School Locale Transportation Division and requested that authorities send her the video.
Lauren Thomason guaranteed that her child pummeled his head into the rear of the seat before him and one more companion of his child’s had hammered his head into the window, making his head and neck hurt. She said she was particularly worried since her child slipped on ice half a month prior and was all the while recuperating from a blackout.
Douglas Region School Locale delegated Brian Fitzgerald as a transport driver in October 2022. As per inward school records, Brian had recently wrapped up under seven days prior and was generally driving without anyone else. The agents said that he was not experienced sufficient in managing troublesome understudies. Brian had recently been driving just custom curriculum youngsters, and this episode was his most memorable time driving an overall training transport.