Akron Public Schools has requested that both officers involved in the forceful arrest of a Firestone CLC student , not just the school’s resource officer, be removed from all Akron schools duties, Superintendent Michael Robinson said Monday night.
Security footage released by the district before the meeting shows the school’s resource officer repeatedly punching a student in the head while he and another officer attempted to arrest the teen last week.
Mayor Shammas Malik had previously announced the school’s resource officer has been moved to administrative duty and would not be assigned to a school in the future, no matter the outcome of a pending use-of-force investigation…