This video has been showing up all over social media today and is sparking debate over whether this was an example of police brutality.

This video shows as many as six Brookdale Community College police officers wrestling with a nursing student they were trying to arrest.

According to the APP, the student, Jeffrey "Jay" Michel, and his friends say the action was out of line and are calling it "police brutality."

The nearly eight-minute YouTube video shows officers arresting Michel, 27, of Colts Neck, while he repeatedly asks the officers to tell him why he's being arrested.

In an interview with the Asbury Park Press Monday, Michel said he still doesn't understand why officers arrested him Friday. He was given four tickets for disorderly conduct, obstruction, harassment and resisting arrest.

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Michel said he was on campus Friday to do homework then met up with friends when, he said, officers cornered him on a bridge. The officers began asking him questions about an incident the week prior, when a friend had called police after Michel had confronted him about a missing laptop charger.

The friend initially told police Michel was harassing him. But Michel and the friend said Monday that the issue had since been resolved by the time the officers approached him.

Michel said he told the officers he did not want to answer their questions and asked them for their names and badge numbers.

"I asked them for a lot of things, but they wouldn't answer anything," he said.

That occurred before Michel's friend started recording the altercation. The videos shows three officers trying to arrest Michel and threatening to use pepper spray on him. At one point, an officer has Michel in a choke hold, and Michel yells that he cannot breathe.

 

Brookdale released this statement:

"Brookdale student Jeffrey Michel, 27, was being placed under arrest by Brookdale police officers on Nov. 14 as the result of an ongoing investigation. He was charged with harassment, obstruction, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office has been notified and is conducting an investigation. We are fully cooperating with the investigation and, as a result, we are unable to comment further at this time."

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