ICYMI: Bus Driver Arrested For Punching Upper West Side Student, Police Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A school bus bus driver is facing charges for punching a student at an Upper West Side private school in the face, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

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Michael Bradley, 52, has been charged with assault, act in a manner injurious to a child and aggravated unlicensed operator, an NYPD spokesman said. While driving a school bus on Friday, Bradley stopped at a red light and called a male child up to the front of the bus, police told Patch. When the child approached the the front of the bus Bradley put him in a headlock and punched him in the nose causing pain and bleeding, police said.

A school administrator at the student's school, the Ideal School on West 91st street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, reported the incident to the authorities, police told Patch.

Bradley was arrested Monday, and it was revealed that his driver's license is currently suspended, police said.

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