DeKalb SRO allowed to stay on duty for week after excessive force complaint, records show WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The DeKalb County School District allowed a school resource officer to remain on active duty for nearly a week despite facing allegations that he used excessive force on two students, a Channel 2 Action News investigation uncovered.

Channel 2′s Michael Seiden filed multiple open records requests with the school district and learned that a student resource officer at the DeKalb Alternative School, was placed on administrative leave on March 19 pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

Sources close to the investigation told Seiden that the officer was placed on leave after he was accused of slamming a student on her head, knocking her unconscious during a March 13 incident at the DeKalb Alternative School.

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“Due to the serious nature of the accusations, the officer was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation,” according to the district statement emailed to Channel …