Video appears to show Texas school administrator throwing teen into wall

A mother, whose son attends a school in Round Rock Texas, made the decision to release CCTV footage which appears to show a member of the faculty throwing a 14-year-old boy into a wall earlier this year.

The altercation occurred on April 29th at GOALS Learning Center, which is a school for students who have a learning disability.

The mother, Tatiana Alfano, told Fox 7 Austin that she received a call from the school saying that her son had been non-compliant with staff and proceeded to hit his head in a fall.

The student in question, Quintin Proctor, 14, attends the school and says he said that he was ejected from his classroom that day for disobeying two female teachers. The teachers then placed him into a room that is known as the “cool down room” to allow him to calm down.

“When I got there, I was pretty calm. I just had my leg on the wall and those teachers I was okay with, and then, after they had put me in there, Mr. Thomas had come in,” Proctor said.

Quintin said that Jacob Thomas, who is the assistant principal of his school, relieved the two teachers, and Quintin thought he was relieved as well. Quintin says when he went to follow the teachers back to the classroom, he was thrown back into the room by the administrator.

“When I hit the wall, I didn’t really know what to think, like my mind just kind of went blank,” he said.

Quintin’s mom said after she was contacted by GOALS Learning Center, her intention was to discipline her son when he got home. Quintin pleaded with his mom to listen to him and look into the incident further.

“I was going to follow through with that with the consequences here at home, but Quintin was insistent, and he said, ‘no, you don’t understand. He threw me into a wall, Mom,’” said Alfano.

Alfano said she then requested a copy of the video from the school, and after watching the video, she said “it validated everything he said.”

The footage shows the administrator throw Quintin into the wall. Quintin then puts his hands up and the administrator then then pins him to the ground for a minimum of four minutes.

Alfano said she has been in contact with a lawyer and has also contacted the district for an explanation.