{"id":562815,"date":"2026-02-03T07:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:51:15","slug":"more-san-antonio-police-department-officers-suspended-over-2025-use-of-force-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562815\/","title":{"rendered":"More San Antonio Police Department officers suspended over 2025 use of force incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Two more San Antonio police officers have been suspended for their roles in a June 2025 use of force incident, discipline records obtained by KSAT Investigates show. <\/p>\n

Officer Yousif Abdullah was given a 30-day suspension in early December, after internal affairs investigators determined he fired two non-lethal projectiles at a suspect who was seated in a walkway with his hands out in front of him.<\/p>\n

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Abdullah, a five-year veteran of the San Antonio Police Department, was originally given a contemplated indefinite suspension for the June incident. <\/p>\n

A second officer on scene, Ivan Mendez, was given a 15-day suspension the same month after investigators determined he released a K-9 on the man.<\/p>\n

The dog latched onto the suspect\u2019s right leg and continued to bite him until officers moved in and handcuffed the suspect, city records show.<\/p>\n

Mendez, an eight-year veteran of SAPD, was also given a contemplated indefinite suspension, which was later shortened after a meeting with SAPD Chief William McManus.<\/p>\n

Mendez forfeited 88 hours of vacation time to cover the suspension, city records show.<\/p>\n

Both Abdullah and Mendez were suspended for using a greater amount of force than was reasonable or necessary.<\/p>\n

SAPD officials have not identified the suspect in the incident. <\/p>\n

He is referred to in suspension paperwork as R.H., and an SAPD incident report released last week had both his name and the address where the encounter took place redacted.<\/p>\n

The suspect was taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries and was then booked into jail after being released, the incident report states.<\/p>\n

A third officer, Sgt. Jesus Rubio, was suspended 30 days for mischaracterizing the same use of force incident, suspension records obtained by KSAT<\/a> previously showed.<\/p>\n

Read more reporting on the KSAT Investigates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Two more San Antonio police officers have been suspended for their roles in a June…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":562816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,86578,31872,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-562815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-broken-blue","tag-ksat-investigates","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-sapd","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116005613571012196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}