POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN)—Several boaters were arrested following a brawl near a small and usually quiet lakeside community in Polk County and while major crimes don’t happen everyday in the town, the county’s deputy is using the case to take a stand.

It was an all out brawl at Winter Haven Lake—one man is knocked out cold while others are pummeled.

All of this chaos unfolded in front of a child who was watching from a boat.

“We’re gonna lock y’all up until you figure out that you can’t misbehave in the community. That you can’t fight. That you can’t knock people unconscious. It’s over folks,” said county Sheriff Grady Judd.

The fight happened on August 2 on a private vacant lot but this fight wasn’t a one-off.

One man whose parents live on the shoreline said this kind of inappropriate

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