krblokhin via Getty Images A New York City man was filmed being arrested on a subway train (a similar one pictured) by multiple officers on Friday after being suspected of having a firearm that he did not have.

Video showing New York City police officers mobbing an alleged subway fare evader on a train has gone viral over the officers’ handling of what police said was ultimately a mistaken report of a man with a gun.

The video taken in Brooklyn on Friday shows the man seated on a subway train car with his hands held in the air as officers gesture at him from outside the car while waiting for the doors to open. On either side of the man, fellow riders huddle together on opposite ends of the train car.

“If you can’t see, the reason everyone moved was because all the police had taken out their guns and aimed at him,” Elad Nehorai, who uploaded the video, wrote on Twitter.

The video showed nearly a dozen officers rushing inside once the train car’s doors were open and forcing the man to the ground before frisking him. At least one officer is seen putting away his firearm.

New York Police Department Chief of Transit Edward Delatorre, in a statement posted to Twitter, said the man in the video ran into the train car after being approached by officers who had been told by a “credible witness” that he was armed with a gun. The man managed to flee to the next subway stop where the train was held so officers could take him into custody.