University of Nevada, Reno Police Chief Adam Garcia released a statement Wednesday apologizing for a school police officer’s “inappropriate and offensive comments” made to a graduate student and former Wolf Pack football player during a traffic stop.

The video, taken from a body camera, shows a nighttime traffic stop involving several students on North Virginia Street. One officer comments on how large one of the passengers, later identified as Kevin McReynolds, is. Officer Adam Wilson jokingly states he would shoot McReynolds rather than try to fight him.

“I never had an officer make such repugnant comments to a member of the community,” said Garcia, who’s served as police chief for 15 years. “The student felt threatened. He came forward, and to his credit, made the complaint. He felt uncomfortable about what was said and felt it was inappropriate, and I agree.

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“In today’s social climate, these are not comments that an officer should be making. It does not reflect on me or the good men and women in this department who work so hard to include the community in our cornerstone of our policing philosophy.”

Garcia said the officer was placed on administrative leave and could face time off, or termination.

The video was taken from Sgt. Dan Johnston’s body camera, which showed him pull over a silver car that was carrying five students. Johnston claims the car swerved toward him on the roadway.

He asks the driver if she had been drinking, and the student admits to having a glass of wine earlier that night. The officers also allegedly found open alcohol cans in the car.

Johnston then asks all of the passengers to step outside the car. He tells some of the passengers to walk home because there were too many people in the car.

McReynolds steps out of the car and the officer makes a joke about his size. Standing 6-foot-2 and weighing 280 pounds as a high school senior.

McReynolds was one of the nation’s top defensive tackle recruits. He played for Nevada in 2015 for one season as a grad transfer.

“Holy s---, I’m glad you’re not fighting, you’re too big,” Johnston is heard saying in the video as the group bursts into laughter.

At the time of 4:21 in the video, Wilson is heard saying he would shoot McReynolds.

“That’s why I’m like, ‘I’m just going to shoot him if this goes sideways,’” Wilson says in the video. “F--- that.”

The laughing stops and McReynolds is seen glancing over at Wilson.

Campus police and the university’s Title IX Office, which typically looks at discrimination or sexual harassment cases, are investigating the incident, said Kerri Garcia, UNR director of communications.

Adam Garcia said he condemns the comments and would not tolerate inappropriate behavior.

“I will tell you right now that I’ve seen the video,” Garcia said. “The video speaks for itself.

“When I first saw it, I didn’t hear it because it was so quick. When I went back and listened to it several times, it became clear what was said.”

UNR president Marc Johnson also issued the following statement in response to the video:

"On Sunday, two University Police officers conducted a traffic stop in which they made deplorable comments to one of our graduate students. These comments created great distress for this young man. He is to be commended for the courage he showed in coming forward in reporting this incident. I have personally apologized, along with Director of University Police Services Adam Garcia, to this young man for the wholly unacceptable and reprehensible words that were spoken to him. The safety and well-being of our entire campus community is my most important concern as president; and in this particular incident, I continue to be concerned for the young man who was affected. This type of abhorrent language contradicts in every way our values as an institution. We are taking immediate action to ensure that this does not happen again."

The video continues on to record a conversation between the officers at the scene. Johnston eventually speaks about a fight the weekend before and states he would also shoot a student if he needed to.

Johnston states that a student at the fight he referenced earlier in the video was carrying a Taser.

“It was a Taser. I guess it could look like a gun,” Johnston says in the video at 9:37 minutes. “I should have tasered that f---ing kid.”

He’s eventually heard saying, “F--- 'em, f--- 'em… I’ll shoot you if I have to...”

Kerri Garcia described the rest of the video as “inappropriate and equally shocking.”

“It’s a terrible, terrible situation,” she said.