LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Neighbors claim police officers got too physical during an arrest Friday afternoon in the Beecher Terrace complex.
"It's wrong. It's police brutality, and I'm sitting there watching it," said eyewitness Brenda White.
White is talking about a video of the arrest that's gone viral; a scene she witnessed in person Friday afternoon.
Filmed from afar, it's causing quite a stir in the close neighborhood of Beecher Terrace.
"I seen two cops, and they had that boy on the ground, and they was beating him, and then a third cop came up and was kicking him," said neighbor Diane Person.
"They had him down [on the ground], and his head was [down], and two of them was down on him, and he couldn't move, and then a tall white guy had him [down], and then all the cops zoomed in," White said.
A police reports says officers were trying to arrest Timothy Greer, 23, Friday afternoon for possession of marijuana when things quickly got heated.
"I see this guy everyday. He speaks to me," White told WAVE 3 News.
But LMPD says Greer was far from friendly Friday, forcing officers to use force to arrest him.
Neighbors, however, said they aren't buying it.
"He didn't deserve to get what they did to him out there. I mean they beat that boy. They tazed him. They beat him. They had his head down," White said.
"They weren't protecting that day. They were beating," Person claimed.
Greer has a lengthy criminal history, including cocaine and marijuana drug possession charges, assault, receiving stolen property, criminal trespassing, fleeing police and robbery.