Footage Showing Cop Stomping On Man's Leg During Arrest Goes Viral; Investigation Launched [Video]

Alabama police have launched an investigation after a video showing an officer stomping on a man's leg during an arrest went viral on social media.

Huntsville Police Department has begun an investigation regarding the incident that happened Sunday night at a Mapco gas station on University Drive in Huntsville.

A one-and-a-half-minute video of the incident was recorded and shared on Facebook Live and Twitter by a witness at the store. The video showed several officers struggling with a man on the ground, later identified as Kemontae Hobbs, while an officer stomped on the man's leg.

What took place prior to the livestream's start remains unknown. But according to Bruce Turner, the man who recorded the video, the store clerk told him that the detained man had been harassing women in the store, News 19 said in a report.

At the beginning of the video, the man getting arrested could be seen face down. Meanwhile, an officer could be seen struggling with him on the ground. In the background, a woman could be heard screaming for help.

Shortly after, two officers ran toward them. One of the cops then stood above the man who was being arrested. The officer could be seen stomping on the man's leg repeatedly while yelling, "Stop resisting!"

A fourth officer rushed to the scene and the man was detained without further incident. All of the officers were white and the man who was apprehended was Black.

"We are aware of the video and investigating at this time," Capt. Michael Johnson of the Huntsville Police Department told Penn Live News.

A group called Huntsville Bail Fund created a Facebook post seeking help to get Hobbs on bail. The said post described Hobbs as the man who "was brutalized by Huntsville police."

"Police were called because Kemontae was panhandling outside a gas station, leading to the viral video of an officer attempting to break his leg," the group wrote on its Facebook page.

In a recent update, the group shared that Hobbs has been released on bail.

"Kemontae has had several run-ins with the cops. They are aware that he has schizophrenia, and is sometimes known to wander when he isn't able to access treatment. After his arrest and brutalization, Huntsville Police called to tell his mother that they had her son, and knew he was mentally ill. They treated him like this anyway," the post said.

"It didn't take all those officers when he was already down," Kimberlyn Hayes, Kemontae’s mother, told Penn Live. "How was he resisting when he was already on the ground and you are stomping on him like a dog? That's not how you handle things," she added.