Akron Mayor Shammas Malik held a press conference yesterday, providing details on an incident which occurred last Wednesday at Firestone Community Learning Center between a student and a School Resource Officer. According to Malik, the incident started when a student bypassed the metal detector as he entered school. Malik said there were 2 Akron Police officers at the school that morning, one was Firestone’s Resource Officer and the other was there on a secondary employment shift. Surveillance camera footage from the school shows the student being directed toward the metal detector several times. At one point, the student attempts to circumvent the officers. The officers grapple with the student, and during the interaction, the SRO punches the student several times in the head. He has been removed from the program and assigned to administrative duty. The second officer is on his regular patrol shift. Initially, the student was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing official business, and trespass. However, Malik said the Summit County’s Prosecutor’s Office agreed to drop the charges while a use-of-force investigation takes place.