A cell phone video from a South Carolina high school baseball game has blown up online. It shows a school resource officer pinning a teenage player in uniform and cracking him on the side of the head with a stun gun.
The video, which lasts around 52 seconds, was recorded at Pee Dee Academy in Mullins, in Marion County. We see Deputy Eddie Page, a school resource officer with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, grabbing Lee Academy player Andrew Bowers from behind. Page is wrapping his arm around Bowers’ neck and upper body, pulling him backward while Bowers is struggling hard.
The people in the background are yelling things like “What the fuck is wrong with you?” and “You just lost your job!” Page sounds pretty mad at the kid when he tells him to stop struggling. He mentions that Bowers stepped on his foot with his cleats. Then he raises his stun gun and hits the kid on the side of the head with it.
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The video doesn’t show what happened right before the deputy got involved. It just catches the restraint and the strike. Bowers is clearly resisting and moving around a lot while Page tries to get control. The whole scene is loud and chaotic with parents and spectators going off.
The stun gun wasn’t fired officers sometimes use them as impact weapons up close like that.
All of this went down after the game on March 25, 2026. Pee Dee Academy won 7-0 against Lee Academy, but Bowers had the only hit for his team. From what locals say, it all began when someone on the Lee Academy team got into an argument with an African American umpire. It all started in the parking lot with racial threats, then escalated back towards the field involving more kids and witnesses.
Page stepped in to break it up during what witnesses described as a bigger mess. That’s when Bowers apparently stomped on the deputy’s foot with his baseball cleats.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office moved quickly. Their spokesperson, Tammy Ervin, said they’ve handed the whole thing over to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for an independent investigation. Deputy Page has been taken off regular duty while it plays out. SLED is looking at several cell phone videos, witness statements, and whatever bodycam or other footage exists. So far, no charges against the deputy, and the student wasn’t seriously hurt.
These kinds of incidents with school resource officers at kids’ games keep stirring up the same old debate about police in schools. SROs get training on security and de-escalation, but phone videos like this one always make people ask where the line is when you’re dealing with teenagers.
Some folks watching the clip think hitting the kid in the head was way over the top, especially at a ball field. Others say you can’t judge it without the full context of a chaotic crowd.
Either way, it’s feeding into bigger conversations. The SLED investigation will sort out what actually happened here, but the video has people calling for better guidelines on how officers should handle situations at high school sports events.
