A former North Carolina police officer who was caught on video beating a black man in August has been charged with two counts of assault, a state district attorney said Friday.

The officer, Christopher Hickman, who is shown in the video beating and Tasering the man, Johnnie Jermaine Rush, was charged Thursday with assault by strangulation, a felony, and assault inflicting serious injury, a misdemeanor, said Todd Williams, the district attorney of Buncombe County.

Officer Hickman was also charged with a second misdemeanor, for threatening Mr. Rush.

The charges came after the video, which was obtained by The Citizen Times and released in a story last month, caused an outcry in Asheville, the county seat of Buncombe County and the largest city in Western North Carolina.

“The city is in outrage,” Councilwoman Sheneika Smith told The New York Times in an interview on Wednesday.