Video shows North Carolina police officer body-slamming a female high school student
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In the video, Rolesville Police Department officer Ruben De Los Santos is seen lifting the student into the air and then forcefully throwing her to the ground. The student then stands up and is taken away by the officer with her hands behind her back.
According to a witness, the incident occurred during a fight between two other students at Rolesville High School Tuesday morning, a local CBS affiliate reported. The student who was thrown by the officer "was trying to defend her sister and to break things up," the witness told the station.
The student suffered minor injuries, "but nothing extremely serious," the witness wrote on Twitter.
De Los Santos is a resource officer assigned to the high school in Rolesville, a town about 15 miles northeast of Raleigh.
Wake County officials said they were investigating the incident, according to Raleigh's News and Observer. Meanwhile, the officer's actions have drawn scorn from parents of students at the school, as well as the North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, who called the body-slamming a "disturbing use of force."
The video was reminiscent of other recent police incidents at public schools, including one in Texas in which an officer body-slammed a 12-year-old girl and one in South Carolina in which an officer violently threw a student across a classroom. Both officers involved in those incidents were eventually fired.
THIS. IS. NOT OKAY. #rolesvillehigh pic.twitter.com/lHMhUZxqAR
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