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EXCLUSIVE: Knives seized, cop punched at chaotic John Bowne high school in Queens

John Bowne High school on Main Street in Flushing Queens.
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John Bowne High school on Main Street in Flushing Queens.
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Violence struck Queens’ troubled John Bowne High School again on Friday, marking the third day of disturbances in a week of unhappy events for students and staff at the Flushing school.

School safety agents who conducted random metal-detector scanning busted a student with a butterfly knife at 7:50 a.m. that day, as well as two other students packing smaller knives with blades shorter than 4 inches.

Police issued a desk appearance ticket to the student caught with the butterfly knife, identified by cops as a 16-year-old boy from Flushing.

Teen stabbed during fight at Queens high school

But more serious danger erupted later that day when cops arrested a second teen after he punched a 32-year-old police officer who was attempting to break up a fight between the teen and another student.

Last Tuesday, cops arrested three teens at John Bowne in the stabbing of a 16-year-old male classmate in a busy hallway near the cafeteria. The victim, who was stabbed in the side, was transported to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens in stable condition.

With Ross Keith, Laura Dimon