10 day suspension for SAPD sergeant who put opposing coach in headlock, fought parents after youth basketball game
A San Antonio Police Department sergeant who was captured on camera earlier this year putting an opposing coach in a headlock and fighting parents outside of a youth basketball game while off duty has been suspended for 10 days, discipline records obtained Tuesday by KSAT Investigates show.
Sgt. Daniel Contreras, a 32-year veteran of SAPD, was originally handed a contemplated 30-day suspension this summer, which was later shortened, records show.
He was suspended for rules violations, including conduct and behavior, and for failing to self-report his involvement in a disturbance that required fellow SAPD officers to respond to the scene.
‘You wanna talk s--- with me?’
The incident happened just before 7 p.m. Feb. 22 at St. Matthew Catholic Church’s gymnasium, in the 10700 block of Wurzbach Road.
Cell phone camera footage recorded by an eyewitness shows Contreras and the other coach being assessed technical fouls during a Catholic Youth Organization game for girls under the age of 10.
The footage shows Contreras was then ejected after making contact with the other coach.
A ref assigned to the game told KSAT earlier this year the second technical was assessed against Contreras after he told the opposing coach, “Yeah, I’ll have something for you later outside.”
The altercation continued outside after the game was finished.
Contreras was seen on video asking the other coach, “You wanna talk s--- with me?” before putting him in a headlock.
The off-duty sergeant was then pushed to the ground by several intervening parents, the footage shows, as children can be heard crying and screaming in the background.
Contreras then gets up, squaring up with one of the parents and said, “You wanna push me? Let’s go, man! Let’s go!”
The off-duty sergeant is then seen on video saying, “Motherf-----. Come on, motherf-----. Let’s go, come on!”
Contreras and the man then exchanged several punches, the footage shows, as other parents screamed to “call the cops.”
After the fight, a separate video shows Contreras confronting a woman and asking her, “Where’s your p---- husband? Who the f--- are you to get in the way then?”
The video concludes with a man putting his hand on Contreras’ shoulder and walking with him off-camera.
A witness told KSAT that Contreras did not leave the property and was waiting outside when the game concluded.
“This man was supposed to leave, and he didn’t leave. This man was lying in wait,” the witness told KSAT.
The department told KSAT Investigates that officers were called to the scene but left without taking anyone into custody since there was no longer a complainant on scene to file a report.
Contreras was not criminally charged for the incident.
He served the 10-day suspension in early August, records show.
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