HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) -- In the wake of a near riot at Hilliard Darby High School on Monday, a member of Hilliard City Council is calling for a joint meeting of council, the school board, and Hilliard police.
Councilmember Les Carrier said he wants to discuss the possibility of increasing the number of resource officers at all three city high schools.
In addition, Hilliard police are carefully studying a video from inside the class of the fight.
Five Hilliard Darby students involved in classroom altercation“Well, normally, Colleen, this is really the board's purview, right, but when you get to that level of violence and you just I just saw that teacher get jacked and I immediately said, ‘Hey, we got to start taking a look at this from a public safety perspective.’”
Carrier watched the entire video and Hilliard police confirmed a team of detectives is taking it apart frame by frame.
“It was a pretty big fight,” Carrier said. “It lasted a long time so that was another concern I had. You know, it's 1:30 before you got the interdiction of an SRO [school resource officer] because they were out doing other duties, so I'm waiting for the police report. Going to ask some questions. Um, I've reached out to a school board member and said, ‘Hey, is there an opportunity? What can we do? What do you want us to do?’”
Carrier said each high school has one resource officer but may need to double that so there is one on each floor. He asked the department for statistics and said there were 300 runs to the high schools in the first six months of the school year, five percent of them were for acts of violence.
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“If we share, we talk about it, we have a dialog, we debate it,” he said. “I'm calling for a joint school board, city council meeting to sit down and talk to and have HPD give us a presentation, have the administration talk, and then, you know, we're all should be on the same page. Public safety should be number one so let's figure it out and solve it.”
Hilliard Chief of Police Mike Woods said the department initially considered inciting riot charges against five students, but after seeing the video, more charges are under consideration. He added the department is going to take its time to make sure investigators get it right.
NBC4 reached out to the district to ask if the school board is considering a request for more resource officers, but the district has yet to respond.
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