Police are working to track down two teens who allegedly punched the mother of a Hot Springs High School student in the face during an argument over a Confederate flag in the school parking lot.

Hot Springs, Arkansas police responded to the school parking lot shortly before 6 p.m. last Friday when the mother of a student told police she was punched in the face by two students who just finished football tryouts with her son, the Sentinel-Record reports.

Freshman Chris Stout told KATV the altercation sparked into a brawl when a football player saw a Confederate flag in the back of his grandfather’s car window.

“The next thing I heard was ‘take down that flag’ and I thought, ‘oh my, here we go,’” Stout said.

“They saw a flag in my back window, there were words back and forth, I didn’t say nothing,” Stout’s grandfather, Bob Twist, told the news site. “Then all of a sudden an all-out brawl.”

Parent Regina Twist said she tried to protect her son during the melee and was punched in the face, twice.

“There was an altercation between another parent and the child and then several teenagers came up,” she said. “I was holding my son the whole time and then I got stung in the face twice by two different males.”

Twist described one teen as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, and the other as 6 feet, 3 inches tall, and said both were wearing Hot Springs High School scrimmage jerseys. Her son told police he didn’t know the boys by name, but just tried out for the football team with them shortly before the attack, the Sentinel-Record reports.

“It was insane, and it was so fast. People running around and hitting people. That’s honestly what it felt like,” Twist told KATV.

Student Jenna Fazio told KARK she read about the incident on Facebook, and while fights aren’t uncommon at the school, brawls involving parents are a first.

“It’s been pretty crazy, like there’s quite a few fights at Hot Springs but it’s never been to where a parent has been hit yet,” she said.

Twist’s neighbor, Thomas Breckles, also displays a Confederate flag in his car’s back window, and said the fight over the stars and bars is based on ignorance.

“Big misunderstanding,” he said. “It’s stupid, learn your history and move on with your life, boom done.”

“Learn your history, don’t just fly off half-cocked,” Beckles said.

KATV reports several locals who support the Confederate flag and the Stout and Twist families rallied at the school the Saturday after the brawl.

“I’m proud of my heritage just like anyone should be,” Bob Twist said, “which is a wonderful thing.”

Regina Twist and Chris Stout were taken to the hospital for minor injuries after the incident. Regina Twist is pursuing criminal charges, and the school’s resource officer is using surveillance footage to identify the assailants, the Sentinel-Record reports.