A Florida teacher resigned and could face criminal charges after a cell phone video showing him wrestling one of his students surfaced.

Stephen Berry said that the wrestle, which happened during class at a middle school in Clermont, was friendly and playful, but admitted that it was not appropriate. The video later shows another student who grabbed the same boy by the neck, in another attempt to wrestle. The teacher has no intention of stopping the fight.

Stephen M. Berry, 39, is a former mayor and Town Council member of Montverde. Even though he resigned immediately after the video surfaced, school officials are still questioning him about the situation.

Lake County Superintendent Anna Cowin said she was conducting her own investigation on the teacher’s behaviour, as it could have been “a lack of judgment or something worse.”

The scandal started Friday, after a parent brought the video to school and showed it to James Braucher, an assistant principal at Clermont Middle.

Assistant State Attorney Bill Gladson said his office would review the video and the witnesses’ statements, in order to decide whether criminal charges were appropriate.