NASSAU COUNTY (WABC) -- There is stepped-up security at Jones Beach after about 500 teenagers gathered on the beach on Thursday for what was called "senior skip day."

Things got tense when some ended up fighting.

Police flew a helicopter low over the crowd to try and break it up, but some are asking if the helicopter was too low.

Some are questioning the heights police took on Thursday night to break up the crowd of a beach brawl.

A Nassau County chopper hovered over 500 young people to use powerful down drafts of the rotors to break up the crowd.

"It was a boxing match that may have been set up and people were around that boxing match so that it wasn't really a lot of people who were actually fighting," George Gorman New York State Regional Parks Director, said.

Someone spotted wha

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