Oakland High School Football Coach Seen Fighting Student On Video; District Investigating
OAKLAND (KCBS) -- Oakland school officials have put a junior varsity football coach on paid leave while investigating allegations he pushed and shoved a student player on board a team bus.
The heated altercation was caught on cellphone video that was sent to to the Oakland Unified School District's Twitter account Monday.
The video shows a man in a baseball cap identified as McClymonds High School junior varsity football coach De'Carlos Anderson.
He's tries to get a student to sit down, but when he refuses, the two get into a struggle.
District spokesperson Troy Flint told KCBS it happened on the way back from a game in Crescent City ten days ago. The coach is a four-year employee who started as a substitute and became a physical education teacher last year.
The student, a senior, was uninjured and is still in school.
Flint says he's disappointed to see an adult charged with caring and nurturing kids acting out so violently.
"You can't resort to putting your hands on a student," Flint told KCBS. "That's really unacceptable ... As an educator, you're in a position of trust, you're supposed to uplift, care for and nurture students, and you're held to a higher standard. You have to take the higher ground."
It's not clear what lead to the altercation or whether there was previous history between the two.
The school district is investigating the incident while Anderson is on paid administrative leave.
