Video surfaces of middle school coach allegedly choking student with shirt
Fox 2 Detroit
A middle school coach in Michigan is out of a job and facing criminal charges after cops say he used a shirt to choke a student in the hallway … which was apparently caught on video.
Surveillance footage from Ypsilanti Middle School purportedly shows a coach — an adult man, mind you — approaching a teenage student from behind as the kid walks down the hallway towards the door, before the guy wraps a rolled-up shirt around the student’s neck.
It looks like the coach — who has yet to be ID’d — yanks back on the shirt and a struggle ensues … all while the shirt tightens around the kid’s neck. Ultimately, the teen breaks free and the man lets up as the kid walks away.
Now, the coach is facing charges — assault with intent to do great bodily harm by strangulation, plus assault and battery … this per local prosecutors, who talked to ABC News.
According to the kid’s parents, the coach ordered the teen to do pushups as a punishment for horsing around in the hallway … but when the boy refused, citing an injured hand, they claim the coach went after him and did this.
The incident happened earlier this month — and now, the school district says the coach is no longer employed there — and he’s banned from campus and all school events too.