Who Is Payal Modi? Dallas Teacher Suspended For Mock Trump Assassination Video [VIDEO]

Dallas school officials Thursday suspended an art teacher who staged a mock assassination of President Donald Trump and posted a video of it on social media.

Payal Modi was placed on administrative leave for posting the video showing her firing a squirt gun at an image of the president and yelling, “Die!” At the time, the inauguration was being broadcast on her classroom whiteboard.

The 9-second video was posted to a personal Instagram account, the Dallas Morning News reported, with the accompanying message: “Watching the #inauguration in my classroom like…#no #stop #denial #squirtgun #hypocrisy #powerless #saveusall #teachthembetter #atleastitsfriday,” Fox News reported.

It was unclear whether any of her students were in the classroom when the video was made although voices can be heard in the background.

Modi is an art teacher at Adamson High School. The Instagram account has been made private since, but the video is available on YouTube and Twitter as well as on various conservative websites.

"Today, we were made aware of a social media posting being circulated involving a teacher at W.H. Adamson High School. The teacher has been placed on administrative leave and the district has opened an investigation. This is a personnel matter and, as such, we cannot comment," a statement issued by the school district said.

Fox News reported the Secret Service office in Irving, Texas, has been made aware of the video but declined comment.

This isn’t the first mock Trump assassination to be staged in Texas. Two San Antonio high school students and their teacher were reprimanded over a skit performed shortly after the November election titled, “The Assassination of Donald Trump.” It featured one of the students making a gunfire sound with his cellphone and the other falling to the ground, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

The skit was part of a class assignment but the students reportedly changed theirs after it had been approved.

A Kentucky woman tweeted earlier this month allegedly soliciting Trump’s assassination.

The Secret Service office in Louisville said it was investigating Heather Lowrey, 26, for the tweet, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Her Twitter and Facebook accounts have since been deleted, and her employers posted statements saying she had been fired.