Elementary School Adviser Charged With Aggravated Battery After Teacher Is Slammed to the Floor

An elementary school adviser was arrested and charged with aggravated battery after, police say, he picked up and threw a female special-education teacher to the floor during a pickup-basketball game, the Smoking Gun reports. Suggested Reading The Best, Black TV Shows, Movies to Stream on AppleTV+ Why NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Tried To Play…

An elementary school adviser was arrested and charged with aggravated battery after, police say, he picked up and threw a female special-education teacher to the floor during a pickup-basketball game, the Smoking Gun reports.

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The two-on-two game Tuesday, which was captured on surveillance camera inside Floridaโ€™s Holly Hill School gymnasium, allegedly turned sour when 27-year-old Travis Mims became increasingly aggressive.ย 

Mims, who stands 6 feet 2 inches and weighs 260 pounds, picked up 33-year-old Katherine Martin, โ€œturned her upside down, and maliciously threw her body on the floor,โ€ according to the charging affidavit,ย the Smoking Gun reports.ย 

The two faculty members were playing against each other along with one student each. Martin told authorities that there โ€œwas an exchange of wordsโ€ between her and Mims about fouls.ย 

โ€œThen all of a sudden Mims violently picked up Ms. Martin by her waist, turned her body around, and slammed her to the ground,โ€ the authorites recorded, saying that Martinโ€™s โ€œhead struck the ground first, then other parts of her body sustained injury.โ€

Martin drove herself to the hospital for โ€œsubstantialโ€ and โ€œserious and permanentโ€ injuries, the police noted, according to the Smoking Gun.

Mims was arrested Wednesday and released after posting $2,500 bond.

Read more at the Smoking Gun.

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