The Springfield school resource officer whose arrest of a High School of Commerce student sparked public controversy last month told internal investigators that he did not deliberately file a false report on the incident.

In February, security video of Officer Angel Marrero’s Dec. 3 arrest of the student began circulating on social media. In the video, the student appears to make a comment to Marrero as they pass in a hallway before Marrero pushes him, grabs him by the back of the neck and shoves him against a wall.

But in Marrero’s police report, obtained by MassLive, the officer falsely claimed that the student had initiated the physical confrontation by shoving him in the chest with two hands.

In a statement to internal investigators about the arrest, Marrero said that he had genuinely believed in the moment that he had been shoved -- and that any discrepancy with the video was accidental.

“At no time did I ever have the intention to write the arrest report of [redacted] in a manner that could be perceived as deceitful nor did I write it with the intention of being deceitful,” Marrero wrote, according to a copy of the Internal Investigations Unit report obtained by MassLive through a public records request.

“I have been an officer with this department for approaching nine years,” Marrero continued. “During these approximate nine years I have never had any disciplinary issues. I have never had any complaints of excessive force. I have never had any complaints of being deceitful in any of my reports or in any arrests I have made or assisted in. I take great pride in my work and make every effort to perform my duties in a professional and honorable manner.”

Marrero’s professional fate will be decided following a hearing by Springfield’s Community Police Hearing Board, city and police officials have said. The Hampden District Attorney’s Office has also opened a criminal review of the case.

“The SPD promptly initiated and completed an internal investigation into this matter and recommended a hearing in front of the Community Police Hearing Board,” police spokesman Ryan Walsh said in a statement. “We will refrain from making any further comment until after the hearing.”

The report obtained by MassLive shows that the internal investigation was ordered on Dec. 21, well before video of the arrest was publicly released.

Around 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, Marrero was in a second floor Commerce hallway as students moved between classes, according to his police report. The juvenile, who MassLive is not identifying due to his age, allegedly walked by, called Marrero a “p*****,” and threatened to “slap the s***” out of him, according to Marrero’s report.

“I was shocked by this comment as I had no prior interaction with [the student.] I then asked him ‘what did you say?’ as I was perplexed as to why he would even be making such a comment towards me," Marrero wrote. “[The student] then at this time stated ‘You’re a p**** and I’ll slap the s*** out of you!' "

The department’s internal investigation included interviews with three witnesses who say they heard the student call Marrero a p****. One witness, another student, said she heard the boy threaten to slap the officer and that he “bumped his body” against Marrero.

The student at the center of the incident denied that he had threatened Marrero or called him a p****, according to the internal investigation report. He also told investigators that Marrero had punched him in the face -- a claim not backed up by the video footage.

Officer John Lopez, who transported the student to juvenile court after the altercation, told internal affairs that the while talking to the student on the way to court the student admitted to pushing Marrero. The student told internal investigators that while he pushed Marrero after being shoved against the wall, he was trying to create distance from the officer and did not hit him

Marrero told internal investigators that he was on his first shift working at High School of Commerce and did not know the student in question. He wrote that the student’s unprovoked comments made him “fearful” of an assault, and that when they were in close proximity the student “raised his left arm up striking me with his elbow in my lower torso area.”

“Upon feeling the strike from [redacted’s] elbow, due to the close proximity of [redacted] and I, and also due to having just been threatened by [redacted] to be physically assaulted I perceived at that moment he had committed an assault and battery on me by pushing me with two hands in my lower torso area,” Marrero wrote.

In the video, Marrero closes distance with the student and appears to make physical contact with him before grabbing him by the back of the neck, putting him up against a wall and attempting to handcuff him. The video does not appear to show the student strike Marrero with his elbow, though the resolution is low and there is a brief moment where another person obscures the camera’s view of the student’s arm.

A date has not yet been set for Marrero’s hearing before the Community Police Hearing Board. If the complaint against him is sustained, Police Commissioner Cheryl Clapprood will have final authority on what discipline to impose.