Black pedestrian beaten by U.S. police for alleged jaywalking

A video, showing a black young men was slammed and beaten by a white policeman for allegedly jaywalking in Sacramento, capital of California, has sparked nation-wide outrage in social media Wednesday.

The video, first released by witness Monday, showed that the officer followed and confronted the man, identified as Nandi Cain Jr., after Cain crossed an intersection and asked Cain took his hands from pockets.

Cain stopped and argued that he had done nothing wrong.

After some words were exchanged between Cain and the officer when they were standing in middle of the street, Cain took off his jacket, then the officer violently threw Cain to the ground and began to punch him in the head.

Bystander Naomi Montaie, who took the video and posted it on Facebook, was heard screaming in the video, "Oh my God! Why'd you take him down like that? No! That was wrong!"

Montaie filmed the five-minute-long video as the officer called for back-up. Six additional officers arrived to assist in Cain's arrest. Cain was initially charged with resisting arrest but it was later dropped and he was released.

Sacramento police released the dashcam video of the incident later, in which viewers can hear the officer demanded Cain to get down to the ground and Cain's response, "I don't have nothing."

Sacramento City Council discussed the incident Tuesday night. A policeman said in the meeting when he reviewed the dashcam video, he was troubled by what he saw and alerted superiors.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg asked what would have happened if no one caught the incident on camera, and called the incident "disturbing."

Sacramento police said in a statement that the officer was already on unpaid administrative leave and the department would turn the results of the investigation over to the Sacramento County DA' s office.

Cain was quoted by NBC as saying that at that time he felt like the policemen were going to draw a gun out and shoot him or try to break his arms off.

"It was supposedly for jaywalking," Cain said of the initial arrest. "And then, when they put me in handcuffs and they were driving off, I heard them (talk) about they were going to get me for resisting arrest. But as you can see on the video clearly, I didn't resist at all." Endit