Cobb investigates officer’s use of pepper spray on students

Did a Cobb County school resource officer act properly when she pepper sprayed several middle school students while trying to break up a fight last week?

That’s the question Cobb school law enforcement officials are trying to determine.

The school district’s police chief, Ron Storey, said in an interview Monday he believes the officer’s actions were justified, but an investigation is ongoing. One parent whose daughter who was not in the fight but accidentally pepper sprayed wants the officer fired.

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