Oregon Football coach arrested for shaking and hitting kids to wake them up for a football camp | Forced to resign

Jamal Jones, a head football coach of Westview High School in Beaverton was arrested on 12 counts of harassment following accusations of waking up players on his team by shaking and slapping them at a overnight football camp.

According to the police reports, the players were not getting up for a multi-day football camp at Linfield University, and he began waking them up. The students reported the incident to their parents who called police.

Jones is not just a football coach, he is also a police officer with the Hillsboro Police Department.

Following the allegations, the Hillsboro Police Department placed Jones on leave pending the investigation. 

Jones previously was the head coach at Franklin High School in Portland and at Arcata High School in California, where he was the head coach for six years, according to the Westview High School website. 

I am not sure how I feel about this. I mean if he was just shaking them to get up because the kids were not getting up or slapping them in the legs to wake them up that is harmless. But if he was punching them in the head or something that is different.

I hope to hear more about this case, because it sounds interesting.