The Akron NAACP has called for a review of school safety policies after an officer's use of force against a Firestone CLC student last week.

Akron Mayor Shammas Malik held a press conference Monday "to provide details on an incident which occurred last week at Firestone High School between a student and a school resource officer." According to Malik,

An Akron, Ohio, Police Department school resource officer has been requested to not return to Firestone Community Learning Center after surveillance video captured him punching a student in the head multiple times.

Opinions varied from supporting the involved officers to urging that police officers be pulled from Akron Public Schools.

An Akron, Ohio, school resource officer has been assigned to administrative duty after he was recorded on video punching a high school student in the head, the mayor said.

A police officer in Akron, Ohio, who was working as a school resource officer, was seen on security video punching a student.