SAPD officer suspended 30 days following family violence arrest in Medina County

A San Antonio police officer suspended earlier this year for his drunken role in an incident with emergency personnel at a New Mexico ski resort has received a second suspension for an unrelated domestic violence arrest in Medina County.

Officer Taylor Thompson was handed a 30-day suspension in late August, seven months after Thompson admitted to Castroville police that he struck a woman with an open palm, city discipline records show.

Thompson was charged with misdemeanor assault causing bodily injury-family, records show.

Thompson told police at the Jan. 26 scene that he had acted in self defense, records show.

The criminal case was then forwarded to the Medina County District Attorney’s Office.

The case was dismissed in early March, according to court paperwork released by the Medina County DA’s office on Tuesday.

As part of the discipline for the family violence arrest Thompson was required to sign a “release and settlement agreement.”

The agreement, signed Aug. 21, required Thompson to enter a battering intervention and prevention program within 20 days of the start of his suspension, records show.

Thompson waived any right to appeal the suspension, as part of the agreement.

He had originally been handed a contemplated indefinite suspension in July.

Arrest came three weeks after Taos Ski Valley incident

SAPD suspended Thompson 15 days in late May after they determined he was intoxicated in public view during an incident at Taos Ski Valley in early January and had failed to report to a supervisor that he had contact with law enforcement.

Body-worn camera footage obtained by KSAT Investigates shows Thompson having difficulty standing and leaning on a ski rack to keep his balance.

Ski patrol treated Thompson for a cut on his hand. He identified himself as law enforcement and that he worked for SAPD, according to the footage.

Thompson repeatedly told a responding officer that he was “good,” even as the officer pointed out that he was not good and was seen knocking over objects.

Thompson began to cry as medics treated his hand, the footage shows. Thompson eventually had to be helped into a seat while medics bandaged his injury.

He was eventually taken to a hospital to get his hand sewn up, ski patrol told the department’s chief in the video.

A woman identified as Thompson’s girlfriend, Skylynn Cisnero, was charged with battery on a peace officer, a fourth-degree felony in New Mexico, and misdemeanor concealing identity after becoming combative with department of public safety officers at the ski resort and then later jail staff.

Cisnero was terminated as a Hondo police officer days after her arrest.

Cisnero confirmed to KSAT the charges against her were suspended by prosecutors, a New Mexico legal term to describe criminal cases that have been paused while a defendant completes certain conditions.

Neither charge shows up in a search of New Mexico court records.