Shocking video shows Georgia cop grabbing teacher by neck

Shocking video captured the moment a Georgia cop grabbed a 22-year-old substitute teacher by the neck and dragged her away after she tried to separate two girls during a brawl.

Nia King told WSB-TV she tried to talk the two students at Eagle’s Landing High School in Henry County out of going to blows but backed away when they started swinging.

“Once we pushed down the hall, I got trampled from the left to the right of the hall, and now I’m back into the middle of the fight,” she told the news outlet.

“As I was back in the middle of the fight, the (school resource officer) just grabs me by the neck, and the fight is still continuing to go on, and she dragged me all the way from the middle of the hall towards her office,” King told the channel.

Footage shot by other students shows the officer grabbing the young teacher and pulling her away during the scrum.

King said once she arrived at the female cop’s office, she offered assistance but gave no explanation about why she removed the teacher by force.

“She asked me do I need EMS, do I need the nurse and do I need some water,” she told WSB-TV.

“I just told her, ‘I just need you to leave because you just drug (sic) me from that point to this point, and I couldn’t breathe, but [she] wouldn’t talk,” King said.

“She stepped out, and then she came back in and told me, ‘Oh, I was trying to save you. I was trying to save you because they say you got hit,’” she added.

King noted she has been mistaken for a student before but said she had met the SRO several times before the fracas.

Henry County police Capt. Randy Lee said the incident remains under investigation and would not comment on specifics, other than saying the department does not teach chokeholds or neck restraints.

Police Chief Mark Amerman told the outlet the officer said she did not want to speak with a reporter about the incident.

In a statement, the school district told WSB-TV: “There is a pending investigation into this matter. No further information is available at this time.”