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Police needed pepper spray to break up a massive street brawl near Dickinson High School on Monday, authorities said.

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Police used pepper spray to break up a large brawl that broke out on a Jersey City street Monday afternoon near Dickinson High School, authorities said.

The wild melee, which was captured on video and published to Facebook, started shortly after 3:10 p.m. and included dozens of students flooding a city block near the Palisade Avenue high school. A Dickinson student was stabbed in the brawl, but did not suffer serious injuries, school district spokeswoman Maryann Dickar said.

The video shows the chaos spill into the street on Pavonia Avenue. Motorists can be heard honking their horns as the fisticuffs erupt in the middle of traffic.

A police officer stationed outside Dickinson at approximately 3:10 p.m. said he overheard kids talking about a large street fight that would take place on Newark Avenue after dismissal, a police report states.

The officer called for backup and then noticed a group of about 50 students rushing from Dickinson to the intersection of Newark and Chestnut avenues, around the corner from the school, according to the report.

The officer observed "a large crowd surrounding" and assaulting a group of about four males on Chestnut Avenue. The officer broke up the scuffle, but then saw the group migrate to Pavonia Avenue, between Baldwin and Chestnut avenues. There, a number of people were standing on the tops of vehicles parked in the area, disrupting traffic, and watching a "large fight" involving five or six individuals, the police report states.

But it appeared more than one fight was taking place, the officer noted in his report, adding that he was unable to disperse the crowd using verbal commands.

At that point, he drew his pepper spray and discharged it after the crowd continued to ignore his commands, the report states.

According to his report, the officer tried to apprehend one of the males who was assaulting another person, but the suspect ran away, leading the officer on a foot chase eastbound on Pavonia avenue before turning west on Newark Avenue and eventually escaping.

The suspect was wearing a gray sweatshirt and was bleeding from his lip when he escaped from the officer. He was later identified as a Terhune Avenue resident, but had not been apprehended by authorities as of Thursday morning, an official said.

Police also identified one of the people involved in the brawl as a 17-year-old Central Avenue resident, but he too had not been arrested as of Thursday morning, an official said.

Police said a 14-year-old boy suffered from the effects of the pepper spray and was taken to Christ Hospital for treatment.

The officer who used his pepper spray during the fracas completed a Use of Force form following the incident, the police report indicates.

"The incident did not occur on school property and does not appear to have originated in the school," Dickar, the school district spokeswoman, said in a statement. "School staff are working with police in their investigation and in helping ensure student safety."

The incident is the latest altercation at or near Dickinson involving its students.

On March 27, one week before this week's brawl, a student was struck in the face with a belt while trying to break up a fight at the school between his friend and another person, police said. The 18-year-old student needed stitches to close the wound, authorities added.

In December 2015, an 18-year-old Dickinson student was shot in the leg near the scene of Monday's melee. An 18-year-old student at the school was arrested and charged in the shooting, which took place at the corner of Chestnut and Newark avenues.

Jersey City Ward C Councilman Richard Boggiano, who represents the neighborhood surrounding Dickinson, called on the school district to better address incidents like Monday's fight.

"(Superintendent Marcia V. Lyles) has got to do something about this school. Not next month, not next September, now."

Dickar said the school is "working to develop programs to help address issues in the community that periodically impact on the school and lead to incidents like the one that occurred Monday."

She listed anti-violence student groups, anti-bullying programs and mentoring/leadership programs as different ways the school is addressing problems there.