Substitute teacher arrested after fight with student is caught on camera [Video]

Video taken at a Las Vegas high school last week that shows an altercation between a student and a teacher has now led to an arrest.

Re’Kwon Smith, 27, was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for battery with substantial bodily harm and disturbance of school, the Clark County School District Police Department announced. Sources told Scripps News Las Vegas the student is recovering in a local hospital after the fight.

Video of the altercation showed Smith and the student throwing punches at one another before the student was knocked to the ground.

This video shows the fight between a substitute teacher and a student at Valley High School:

Teacher-student fight at Valley High School caught on camera

Andrew Acevez, a junior at Valley High School, told us he watched the fight happen.

“I see a teacher fighting a student, I’m like, ‘Wow,'” Acevez said. “And then the teacher is just standing over him, just slapping …