A Minnesota police officer who also works as a substitute teacher has been banned from teaching in the South Washington school district after allegedly using a student to reenact the events that led to the death of George Floyd.

Prescott Patrol Officer Steve Williams is also a two-year veteran of the Woodbury Police Department and was not serving in an official capacity as a Prescott Town Police officer when the alleged acts occurred. products.

A press release issued by the City of Prescott, however, confirmed that the officer in question was currently on administrative leave to continue his investigation.

“The City of Prescott and the Prescott Police Department consider the current allegations, if true, made against Mr. Williams to be very disturbing and reprehensible, and we do not condone his actions in any way. Our deepest condolences go out to the South Washington School District, staff and students,” the statement said.

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A Minnesota police officer who also works as a substitute teacher has been banned from teaching in the South Washington school district after allegedly using a student to reenact the events that led to the death of George Floyd. (Prescott Police Department Facebook)

Williams, who was teaching four separate English classes at the school on Monday, allegedly made racist and sexist comments to students as well as other actions that reinforced the need for school officials to fire him.

Parents of students attending the school received letters signed by Woodbury High School Principal Sarah Sorenson-Wagner, South Washington County Schools Superintendent Julie Nielsen and Assistant Superintendent Kristine Schaefer informing them of the incident in which school officials said Williams said he thought students “I would like to hear about his life as a police officer.”

A headstone of George Floyd stands in the “Say Their Names” cemetery at George Floyd Square on May 25, 2023 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Today marks three years since Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police in May 2020.

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Officials also said that through speaking with individual students, they learned that during the incident he “twisted a student’s arm behind the student’s back and showed pressure points on chin and face”, “had talked about a bar fight and had simulated punching a student with his fist “very close” to the student’s face”, and he “”invaded the student area and imitated brandishing a gun and pointing it at the students.”

Parents were reassured that the school “responded immediately, removed the teacher from the classroom and removed him from our school”.

A Minnesota police officer who also works as a substitute teacher has been banned from teaching in the South Washington school district after allegedly using a student to reenact the events that led to the death of George Floyd. (Woodbury High School website)

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School officials say a report on the incident has been submitted to the Minnesota Department of Education and the state’s educator licensing board.

The Town of Prescott is conducting its own internal investigation while the Woodbury Police Department is conducting its own investigation.