Two teachers caught an officer in the midst of what appeared to be a sexual encounter after spotting a leg hanging outside the door of the officer's patrol car on November 24 near the Lighthouse Christian School.
With children just feet away, Angela Russell said the leg caught her eye.
"I saw a leg hanging out of the door, and me and another teacher observed a police officer in the vehicle and when we looked closer we realized they were engaging in improper conduct," she said.
The officer was in a marked police unit and was with a woman in the back seat.
"The children had to leave," Russell said.
Patrolman Keith Ashley is now being investigated as the officer involved. While Ashley wouldn't comment on the allegation, Dallas police confirm he has been taken off the street.
"He's on restricted duty," said Warren Mitchell, Dallas Police Department.
Mitchell confirmed they are "looking at" Ashley.
Two Dallas police sources said Ashley was investigating a burglary at the time of the incident. If so, it would give him an alibi at an apartment near the school. The report said a burglary victim flagged Ashley down in broad daylight to report a break-in, but that crime happened two weeks earlier.
A resident at the apartment complex said that while burglaries have occurred there, they were not at apartment 203, which was the site listed on the report.
"I was so infuriated," Russell said. "Just thinking about it again, it just infuriates me ... because every time you see one you're saying is this officer on his way to see somebody or is this officer doing his job. What is this officer doing?"
In fact, News 8 has learned the Dallas Police Department have been asking the same question. A satellite tracking system allows them to determine the whereabouts of Dallas police cars. They are using those records to determine if Ashley's car was where it was supposed to be on more than one occasion.
The internal affairs department is conducting both an administrative and criminal investigation of Ashley.
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