Video above: Previous coverage of Oklahoma sheriff’s office confirming it was investigating the nudity allegations made against State Supt. Ryan Walters from July 30, 2025.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A 1985 Jackie Chan action movie may be the source of the nude images two Oklahoma school board members say they saw on State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office TV during a meeting last month, according to the Oklahoma House Speaker.
House Speaker Kyle Hilbert (R-Bristow) released a statement Tuesday pointing to forensic findings that suggest Walters’ office TV was playing “The Protector” — an R-rated thriller filled with violence, drug use, and multiple scenes of full nudity — when board members claim they saw images of nude women on screen.
The claim stems from a forensic investigation Nexstar’s KFOR reported that state officials ordered after board members said they saw “retro-looking” images of nude women engaging in sexual activity on a chiropractic-style table during the July board meeting.
KFOR previously reported that the forensic investigators initially examined Walters’ TV and concluded they would need to examine it, and potentially other devices, further in order to find anything conclusive.
In a press release on Tuesday, Hilbert said he took particular interest in one detail from the forensic investigators’ initial report: an app that the Samsung smart TV opened to automatically when powered on.
The report said the TV opened to the Samsung TV Plus app. On that app, users can watch live TV from a guide with channels, including one labeled 1204, an action movie hub.
Hilbert said he had investigators call Samsung and got logs showing the Samsung TV Plus app on Walters’ TV was open to that action movie channel at the time of the meeting.
He said investigators determined “The Protector” was airing on the channel during the hours of July’s state school board meeting.
KFOR watched the movie and confirmed it contains several scenes that match the description given by board members, including one where a group of fully nude women work inside a factory packaging cocaine, some wearing only lab coats.
Another scene shows a fully nude woman giving a man a massage, eventually moving under the table while the dialogue strongly suggests sexual activity.
The scene showed intimate, up-close details of all parts of the woman’s body from numerous angles.
The scene closely matches what board members claimed they saw.
Board members Ryan Deatherage and Becky Carson said it looked like fully nude women were doing something to a man on a chiropractic table, that the footage appeared “retro,” and they saw intimate private parts of the actors’ bodies.
In his press release Tuesday, Hilbert said he spoke with Walters over the weekend.
According to Hilbert, Walters told him he saw what was on the TV before he then turned it off.
He claimed to Hilbert he saw a doctor and nurse and a white lab coat when he turned around to turn the TV off.
That account contradicts what Walters said just days after the board meeting, when he released a statement claiming, “I have no knowledge of what was on the TV screen during the alleged incident.”
It also contradicts what Walters said last Tuesday at a press conference, where he accused the board members of fabricating the entire story.
“What’s being shown on all of your networks right now. That’s what was shown on TV,” Walters said last Tuesday. “And these board members decided to construct a lie to destroy my character.”
KFOR reached out to Walters’ office after Hilbert’s press release on Tuesday and asked if he regrets making that accusation before investigators had presented any findings.
KFOR also asked who opened the app and selected the movie channel, and whether Walters would support policy changes to prevent R-rated content from playing on state-owned TVs.
As has been the case for several months, no one responded.
Speaker Hilbert said the findings appear to “vindicate both the State Superintendent as well as the two board members,” suggesting the board members weren’t lying and the incident may have happened unintentionally.
But several state lawmakers told KFOR Tuesday regardless of intent, if this had happened on a teacher’s classroom TV, they would be held accountable, and Walters should be treated no differently.
The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office and OSBI both confirmed Tuesday their criminal investigations into the matter are not over, they have not reached any formal conclusions, and investigators may make additional, or fewer findings than what Hilbert shared.
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