Ypsilanti Community Middle School

Ypsilanti Community Middle School, located at 35 Spencer Ln, Ypsilanti, MI, on Wednesday, MArch 29, 2017. Hunter Dyke | The Ann Arbor News

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI - Police used pepper spray to detain a student on March 29 at Ypsilanti Community Middle School.

An Ypsilanti police school resource officer was called to the school Wednesday at 235 Spencer Lane in Ypsilanti Township for a report of a disorderly female student, Ypsilanti police Lt. Deric Gress said.

Though the school is in the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office's jurisdiction, an Ypsilanti school resource officer works out of the school.

Gress said the student, who was known to the officer, began to physically resist when the officer placed a handcuff on her. Based on the physical resistance and the student's size, the officer deployed her pepper spray to take the student into custody, he said. That was about 2 p.m. Wednesday.

The circumstances of the incident and initial call are under investigation and further information was not immediately available.