A Utah County gym teacher accused of slamming a 14-year-old student into a wall has been charged with a second-degree felony.
According to a probable cause statement, the incident happened April 18 at Rockwell Charter High School in Eagle Mountain, where Anthony Robbie Chidester, 41, of Cedar Hills, taught physical education and health.
Chidester told the 14-year-old to put a basketball away, and when the boy didn’t do that quickly enough, the teacher got physical, according to the statement, filed Saturday in Utah’s Fourth District Court.
Police said surveillance footage shows Chidester grabbing the boy’s shirt with both hands and slamming him into a wall.