Disturbing Video Shows a Cop Slamming a 12-Year-Old Into the Ground

Warning: this video contains some graphic footage.

A Texas school officer is under investigation after a video shows him body-slamming a student to the ground. In a recording that was posted to YouTube, viewers can see the cop grab 12-year-old Janissa Valdez by the arms before throwing her, face-down, into the cement. Some students at the San Antonio school can be heard shouting, "Janissa, are you OK? Janissa! She landed on her face!"

"You could just hear where she hits the ground. And it's nothing but concrete, cement," her mom, Gloria Valdez, said to NBC affiliate WOAI in Texas. "She wasn't moving . . . I wanted answers and nobody could give me answers. I contacted the vice principal. I talked to the officer. He did what he had to do at the moment — those were his words."

The cell phone footage, which was first posted by a local blog, is the piece of evidence being used in an investigation into the cop, Joshua Kehm, and the San Antonio Independent School District. District spokesperson Leslie Price said that the video "was alarming to see" and that she wants "people to know that excessive force will not be tolerated."

Janissa, who attends Rhodes Middle School, also spoke to WOAI and said she doesn't remember being thrown to the ground, but that the incident started because other kids were sensing a fight between her and another girl.

"I was going up to her to tell her let's go somewhere else so we could talk but that's when the cop thought I was going at her," she said.

The 12-year-old has since been released from the doctor's with a significant bump on her head. Kehm was placed on paid administrative leave Wednesday morning as the investigation continues.

Meanwhile, users have taken to Twitter to speak out against another instance of police using excessive force on young people.

Poor Janissa Valdez, the TX 6th grade girl body-slammed by school cop, Joshua Kehm. The #SanAntonio DA needs 2 charge Kehm w/felony assault.

— BoxerDave (@BoxerDave) April 7, 2016

https://t.co/cXs1Wcxcea don't cops have families? Is this the way? #SAISD #Police #Brutality

— Rajanikanth V (@HyderabadiHero) April 7, 2016

Good thing students recorded this police brutality or they'd never let us know. He still won't get the punishment he deserves tho #saisd

— Manuel Rodriguez (@manrod210) April 7, 2016