(CNN) A North Carolina school resource officer seen on video slamming an 11-year-old boy to the ground has been fired, according to Lt. James Goolsby with the Vance County Sheriff's Office.

The video shows the Vance County Middle School resource officer grabbing and slamming the child to the ground, then picking him up and doing it again before yanking the child up and continuing to walk down the hall. The school alerted the sheriff's office minutes after the incident on Thursday.

"It's obvious that the child was assaulted," Jason Spriggs, Henderson City Council member, said in a Facebook Live video . Henderson is the county seat for Vance.

"To see this is just horrifying," Spriggs said. "It's a rough video. I can't imagine my child going through something like that."

The officer had been placed on paid leave pending an investigation, Sheriff Curtis Brame told WRAL on Friday. Goolsby announced his termination on Monday. CNN is attempting to reach out to the resource officer, whom authorities have not publicly identified.

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