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A video shot Thursday night at the Villa Maria métro depicting two STM inspectors repeatedly using their batons to subdue a man who was allegedly bothering other passengers has left the commuter who shot the video questioning the level of force used during the incident.

Nzo Hodges, 45, who was on the same métro as the inspectors and the passenger, said on Friday he didn’t see the events leading up to confrontation, but as he debarked at Villa Maria station at about 10 p.m., he says he saw the inspectors expel the man from the train.

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“The doors opened up, I got out. I could see that they grabbed him, speared him up against the wall (of the station platform),” he said. “They threw him against the wall. They started hitting him with their sticks and he tried to run but they grabbed his leg, got him on the ground and started beating him some more.”

At one point, Hodges’s video shows the passenger on the ground and dangerously close to the edge of the platform as another métro train pulls into the station. The passenger breaks free a second time and, leaving his jacket, backpack and a basketball behind him, flees toward the stairway leading to the station’s exit.