VIDEO: Assistant Principal, teacher arrested after student put in chokehold at Florida middle school, deputies say

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An assistant principal and teacher at a Tampa middle school were arrested in connection to a child abuse investigation after a video showed the teacher put a child in a chokehold, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

On Jan. 18, officials said 39 year-old Bennie Leverett, a teacher at Progress Village Middle School, put a student in a chokehold, "restricting...