AKRON, Ohio – The principal of Akron East High School is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into a report that he struck a student twice in the face after the student called him a “lazy ass bitch.”

Vyrone Finney, 48, told police he thought the 15-year-old student was going to attack him, according to a police report.

“I was not in the mood to be called a bitch today,” he told officers, according to the report.

Finney has not been charged with a crime, according to police and court records. A spokesman for Akron Public Schools said the district is investigating the incident and that Finney is on leave as "due process progresses.”

The Sept. 19 incident involved a 15-year-old boy and was witnessed in part by Akron police officers, according to the police report.

The sophomore told police that he was in English class around 12:40 p.m., when he got into an argument with his teacher, who instructed him to go to a so-called “buddy room.” The student refused, so the teacher called security guards. The guards told the student he could either go to the buddy room or the principal’s office, the police report says.

The student chose to go to Finney’s office, and the two called the student’s mother to tell her about the incident. According to the student, Finney said he would be disciplined with one period of in-school suspension.

Finney escorted the student to the in-school suspension room and told the supervisor that the student would be spending the rest of the day there. The student argued with Finney, saying they had agreed that he could go back to his regular classes after one class period.

Their argument escalated and the student commented on how tight Finney’s suit was, to which Finney laughed and said he got it from the student’s mother, according to the police report.

The student said he walked back to the office and asked to call his mother to verify the agreed-upon punishment, but workers in both the principal’s and counselor’s offices did not let him use the phone, the report says.

Finney and security guards approached the student and told him to leave the building, according to the report. The student declined and took a seat in the office, at which time police officers arrived and said he would be arrested if he didn’t leave.

The student reported that Finney said he was now going to be suspended for three days, and the student asked to see the paperwork.

“Mr. Finney then tells him he will be suspended for 10 days if he makes him do paperwork,” the report says.

The student said he called the principal a “lazy ass bitch” and stood up to leave the school. That was when Finney hit him twice with an open hand to the face before officers separated them. The student left school and went home, police said.

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