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Shocking mobile phone footage shows the moment a black grandfather is Tasered after police accused him of being a wanted man.

A major police investigation is now underway after the man was brought to the floor by police officers who told him that they did not believe who he said he was.

Judah Adunbi, who has previously set up a group to improve relations between Bristol's black community and the police. was hit in the face by the Taser after police mistook him for a wanted man in an incident in Easton on Saturday.

Police chiefs said they understood that the local community in Easton and the black and ethnic minority community in Bristol as a whole would 'have concerns' about what happened.

Mr Adunbi was one of the founders of the Independent Advisory Group set up by the police with the BME community in Bristol several years ago, reports the Bristol Post

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He said he felt humiliated when police began to approach him accusing him of being someone else, and when he was hit in the face by the Taser he thought he was going to die.

"I felt that was it, because of the way I fell back," he told ITV West News on Thursday evening.

"The way I fell backward on the back of my head. I was just paralysed. I thought that was it. I thought they were taking my life."

The footage was taken by a neighbour of Mr Adunbi, as he was approached by police on Saturday outside his home in Easton.

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The video shows police telling him they believe he was someone else, and then going in through the gate of his house. Officers then try to detain him and Taser the 63-year-old in the face.

"At first you don't accuse someone of being someone else. You ask questions," said Mr Adunbi, a prominent member of Bristol's black community.

Mr Adunbi is a respected member of the police's Independent Advisory Group on race relations.

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"The first thing they should have done is come to me in a polite manner. The way they approached me - they were accusing me. That is wrong," he added.

"It's a little distasteful in my mouth. To know that I'm one of the founder members of the Independent Advisory Group, which was created some years ago in order to improve better relationship between the Afro Caribbean community and the constabulary, and to be treated like this it's difficult," he said.

In 2008, Mr Adunbi, second from the right, was a member of the Legacy Commission, which also included Princess Campbell, Paul Stephenson and now mayor Marvin Rees.

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Both officers remain at work and police said they have voluntarily referred the incident to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

"After reviewing what happened, we voluntarily referred a complaint about this incident to the IPCC. Although we don't have to refer an incident in which a taser has been discharged to the IPCC, we want to be as open and transparent as possible," said Chief Supt Jon Reilly.

"I've met with Mr Adunbi and we had a constructive conversation. We're aware of concerns within the local community and we take these concerns very seriously.

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"We would like to answer their questions but we need to be mindful that an investigation is ongoing which makes that difficult.

"However, I would like to reassure them that the incident was captured on the officers' Body Worn Video cameras."

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"I understand the community are going to have concerns. And we'd really like to answer those," said Chief Supt Jon Reilly. "But as there's an ongoing investigation that's very difficult for us to do.

"I want to reassure the community the whole incident was captured on body-worn camera. Both officers were wearing it. And we're determined to understand what happened.

"That's why we've referred it, voluntarily, to the Independent Police Complaints Commission for them to assess whether an independent review is necessary. We work really hard to work positively with all communities and I see no reason why that should change," he added.

Human rights groups who have previously spoken out against the racial bias in stop at searches by police have slammed the video.

Sara Ogilvie, policy officer at organisation Liberty, said: "The routine use of Tasers in everyday policing is bad enough.

"But the fact that black people are three times more likely to be Tasered than white people shows that urgent change is needed.

"Incidents like this are deeply disturbing.

"Warm words about working with communities mean nothing if officers aren't willing to practise what they preach."