A video of a fight between two young girls in Tampa, Fla., has outraged parents and law enforcement officials.

Viewed thousands of times since it was posted to Facebook, the video shows a 7-year-old girl knocking a 6-year-old girl off an air conditioning unit, and then beating her on the ground, while being encouraged by her older sister. The date the video was taken is unclear.

Authorities got involved after a woman in Georgia saw the video online and alerted police, NBC affiliate WFLA in Tampa reported.

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“I think anybody that would see this would be shocked,” Tampa Police Major Brian Dugan told WFLA. “The behavior of the 7-year-old and the 14-year-old to encourage this, and it’s wrong.”

The two girls are friends, WFLA reported, and they regularly spend the night at each other’s homes, which is why the father of the 7-year-old says he was stunned and angered by the video.  

“I couldn’t watch no more, especially when I heard the child say leave me alone, stop, stop, stop,” the father told WFLA, adding that he immediately punished his 7-year-old daughter and is still upset at his 14-year-old daughter. “I am disappointed in her. She made a mistake. I can't hold it against her ... but to me she made a big mistake to the point I am still mad at her."

The 6-year-old’s mother told the station she didn’t plan to press charges, but the state attorney’s office has taken over the case. The teenage girl does not have a criminal past, and police say she may go through a counseling program as a result of the incident, WFLA reported. 

The father of the girls said he hope hopes his daughters learned a lesson.

"That won't happen again, you can believe that, you can believe that won't happen again, and I apologize to the parent. It just happens it is a messed up situation,” he told WFLA. 

Meanwhile, Tampa police say they don't know who posted the video to Facebook but are trying to figure out how to stop people from viewing the it online, WFLA reported. 

“We have reached out to Facebook and asked them to remove the video,” Dugan said.

Updated at 9 p.m. ET: Anyone who has been fed up with salary, management or other issues that have made a job unbearable has surely dreamed of a "take-this-job-and-shove-it" moment. For most, though, news of the moment likely wouldn't make it outside the workplace walls.

That wasn't the case for a TV news anchor duo in Bangor, Maine, who quit their jobs in front of thousands of viewers at the end of Tuesday evening's newscast.

In what was reportedly inspired by a conflict with upper management, co-anchors Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio announced to viewers that it would be their last show, the Bangor Daily News reported.

The news anchors shared more than 12 years of experience working for WVII and sister station WFVX, according to the Daily News.

"Some recent developments have come to our attention ... and departing together is the best alternative we can take," Consiglio told viewers.

"We wanted to be able to say a thoughtful, heartfelt good-bye to our viewers and to the many communities we served over the years," Michaels told NBC News in an email Wednesday. "We scripted something to keep from getting off-course and emotional."

Michaels, 46, and Consiglio, 28, didn't tell anyone of their decision before the newscast, according to the Bangor Daily News. The newspaper reported the journalists were frustrated over the last four years with the way they were told to do their jobs. In her signoff, Michaels claimed the two were "the longest running news team in Bangor," with six years at the desk.

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"There was a constant disrespecting and belittling of staff and we both felt there was a lack of knowledge from ownership and upper management in running a newsroom to the extent that I was not allowed to structure and direct them professionally,” Michaels, who also served as the station's news director, told the Bangor Daily News. Her co-anchor, Consiglio, also served as executive producer for the station.

"There was a regular undoing of decisions made by me, the news director," Michaels told NBC News, citing that politically-charged stories were sometimes not treated with an unbiased approach.

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Michaels' public LinkedIn profile indicates she has worked at the station since October 2006. Consiglio, who was first a sports anchor and reporter before moving over to the news anchor role, has worked at the station since April 2006, according to his public LinkedIn profile.

Mike Palmer, the station's vice president and general manager, told the Bangor Daily News the incident was "unfortunate, but not unexpected." Palmer denied claims that upper management was involved in daily news production.

But a 2006 New York Times' story indicates that may not be true. Following a broadcast segment about the showing of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," Palmer wrote to his staff that they should refrain from reporting on global warming until Bar Harbor is underwater.

He explained: “a) we do local news, b) the issue evolved from hard science into hard politics and c) despite what you may have heard from the mainstream media, this science is far from conclusive.”

According to the Times' report, Palmer likened global to “global warming stories in the same category as ‘the killer African bee scare’ from the 1970s or, more recently, the Y2K scare when everyone’s computer was going to self-destruct.”

As of Wednesday morning, WVII's employment page listed no open job opportunities, but the Bangor Daily News reported Palmer posted online job opening ads Tuesday night.

The anchors are moving on: Michaels told viewers she will pursue freelance writing, while Consiglio said he'll continue his career "in another capacity."

See the video of the co-anchors final sign-off on the Bangor Daily News website.

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The El Monte City Council in Southern California recommended on Tuesday night that the lifeguards who were fired after they made a video spoof of the song "Gangnam Style" should be reinstated, according to reporters inside the chamber.

The lifeguards involved in the aquatic controversy attended the meeting, which wrapped up around midnight.

The council considered reinstatement of the 14 lifeguards who shot the video -- "Lifeguard Style", which has more than two million views on YouTube -- at a municipal aquatic center. Pool supervisors cited a policy that bars misuse of municipal property when they fired the lifeguards.

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Mayor Andre Quintero asked city staff to bring back a motion to have the lifeguards reinstated while a review of the firings is conducted.

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The lifeguards received support on Facebook and from the creator of "Gangnam Style" -- rapper Psy -- after the firings. Participants said they made the video to celebrate a summer of working at the pool.

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Other council members have not objected to the mayor's call to consider reinstatement. An outside investigator is conducting a review of the video and resulting firings.

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By Marcus Harun
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In sci-fi movies, people go back in time to save lives or fight dinosaurs. But, Jeremiah McDonald went back in time to talk to himself about his pets. Well, kind of.
 
A conversation between McDonald, a 32-year-old filmmaker who lives in Portland, Maine, and his 12-year-old self is the latest viral video to hit YouTube.
 
The two discuss what has changed in 20 years, including how he aged, his hair, and the passing of his pet dogs.
 
“The questions mostly focus on the pets because I don't think I could think of anything else,” McDonald told NBC News. “The larger issues of life weren't weighing down on me at that point.”

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One of the larger issues not discussed included his job -- he currently works at a parking garage.
 
When he decided to film himself two decades ago, McDonald wasn’t thinking big at the time. He just shot video of himself spontaneously talking to the camera when he was 12, hoping to make a follow-up video the next year.
 
He shot a version of the film with his 13-year-old self talking to his 12-year-old self, and he did it again when he was 26. The latter version was posted on YouTube, but viewers were left wondering who the young boy was in the film. For the 2012 version, McDonald added a video montage of himself growing up to make it clear he was the interviewer and the interviewee. It wasn’t until this final version, marking a 20-year age difference, that McDonald gained national attention. The video has been viewed over five million times since it was first posted on July 5.

Not everyone believes that the small boy in the video is really McDonald. But the web superstar said his childhood friends clearly remember that preteen face.
 
“The funnest part for me is looking at Facebook -- all the people who have known me from grade school and onward just getting a huge thrill because they know that kid is me,” McDonald said. “For some of them they only know me as that kid.”
 
That kid jumped around, grunted and even belched on screen, so McDonald jokingly blamed his young self for his single status. But young McDonald may help him out in the end. Since posting the film on YouTube, he said email offers for dates have been rolling in.
 
“In a way, announcing that I was single was the smartest move I made in the entire thing,” McDonald said.
 
Another goal of the video was to relaunch his interest in drawing. McDonald had a serious moment in the comedic film where he reminisced about his past career goal of becoming an illustrator, which he had stopped pursuing.  After describing the characters he used to draw as a kid he said he has now been getting thousands of emails on his website from viewers requesting his drawings.

He is also soliciting ideas of things to draw, which he will then post online. McDonald hopes that project will inspire him to get back into illustration and animation — two of his childhood passions.
 
And since interviewing himself is what made him famous, he said he will probably do it again.
 
“I think I am locked into doing interviews for the rest of my life,” McDonald said. “First at 32 then at 52 or whatever age I feel like.”