Overview
- Video from Nov. 15 shows a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper making contact with and then yelling at South Carolina’s Nyck Harbor and Oscar Adaway III in a stadium tunnel after Harbor’s 80-yard touchdown at Kyle Field.
- The DPS said the trooper was sent home from the game and that the Office of Inspector General will review the incident, with no additional information released.
- Texas A&M Police stated the trooper was relieved of his game-day assignment following the confrontation.
- LeBron James called for the trooper’s suspension on X, while other prominent voices, including Benjamin Watson and Stephen A. Smith, criticized the trooper’s conduct.
- South Carolina coach Shane Beamer supported the decision to remove the trooper; Harbor was evaluated by trainers, returned briefly, and later went for precautionary hospital testing as Texas A&M completed a 31–30 comeback win.