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Seattle’s civilian police watchdog agency confirmed Wednesday it is investigating Seattle officers seen on social media appearing to beat a man.<\/p>\n

The video, posted by a witness to Instagram<\/a> last week, shows Seattle Police Department<\/a> (SPD) officers striking a man at a bus stop while attempting to arrest him. One officer was using a baton and the other was using his fists. The man could be heard yelling, “Police brutality!” in the video.<\/p>\n

At one point, one of the officers appears to put his knee on the man’s upper back or neck. SPD policy prohibits such tactics by its officers.<\/p>\n

The video posted online does not show what lead up to the confrontation. It is also not clear why the man was under arrest.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the city of Seattle’s Office of Police Accountability<\/a> (OPA) confirmed to KIRO Newsradio Wednesday the office has opened an “intake investigation” into the incident, but it will not comment any further.<\/p>\n

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When online users get to the website that allows people to check and track complaint statuses<\/a>, it says the investigation was opened Monday and that, “OPA has received the complaint and a preliminary investigation has begun.” The process, which includes the OPA director reviewing the file, takes up to 30 days, the website states<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deeanthony Marcell, the man who recorded the video, told KING 5<\/a> he doesn’t have to wait for the full story to judge the matter he saw unfold because he felt he was witnessing an injustice. KING 5<\/a> was one of the first Seattle outlets to report this story.<\/p>\n

“It is never OK,” Marcell said. “And that’s the only reason why I recorded it.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Seattle City Council member Tammy Morales told KING 5<\/a> the matter is serious and said their office will look into what happened. The incident took place in her district.<\/p>\n

KIRO Newsradio has requested body camera footage of the arrest from the SPD.<\/p>\n

Contributing: Heather Bosch and Sam Campbell, KIRO Newsradio; Steve Coogan, MyNorthwest<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":25,"protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":3961945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[64415,39,66530],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nProbe open over video where Seattle officers may be beating man<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seattle's civilian police watchdog agency has confirmed it is investigating Seattle officers seen on social media appearing to beat a man.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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