--- title: Texas Officer On Leave After Body-Slamming Student On Video description: "The video is very disturbing." canonical: https://time.com/4285178/texas-officer-body-slam-student/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-07T15:13:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:33:07.430Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Texas Cop On Leave After Body Slamming Student og:description: "The video is very disturbing" og:url: https://time.com/4285178/texas-officer-body-slam-student/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Texas Cop On Leave After Body Slamming Student twitter:description: "The video is very disturbing" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Texas Cop On Leave After Body Slamming Student by [Phil Helsel / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Phil Helsel / NBC News Apr 7, 2016 3:13 PM CUT by [Phil Helsel / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Phil Helsel / NBC News Apr 7, 2016 3:13 PM CUT A Texas school district is investigating a disturbing incident in which a student is seen on video being slammed to the ground by a school police officer. The incident occurred at Rhodes Middle School on March 29, the San Antonio Independent School District said in a statement Wednesday. “The video is very disturbing, and we have launched a formal investigation that is being conducted by both district police and administration,” Leslie Price, executive director of communications for the district, said in a statement. District officials said they became aware of the video, first posted to social media… [_Read the rest of this article from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-cop-leave-after-video-shows-body-slam-student-n552166 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4285178/texas-officer-body-slam-student/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4285178/texas-officer-body-slam-student/"},"headline":"Texas Cop On Leave After Body Slamming Student","datePublished":"2016-04-07T15:13:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:33:07.430Z","description":"\"The video is very disturbing\"","url":"https://time.com/4285178/texas-officer-body-slam-student/","keywords":["Texas","Crime","Education","Courts"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Phil Helsel / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4285178/texas-officer-body-slam-student/","name":"Texas Cop On Leave After Body Slamming Student"}}]}] ```