(Noise Alert)Sitka, AK - Sitka police are defending their actions in the arrest of an 18-year-old man last year, who was tasered multiple times in his jail cell.A Sitka teacher over the weekend posted a video showing the arrest of a Native high school student.It’s not pretty to watch. Sitka police chief Sheldon Schmitt is candid about that.“I think anytime the police are using force, it can be upsetting.”Schmitt says he reviewed the video shortly after the arrest of Franklin Hoogendorn in September 2014. It shows two officers and a jailer escorting Hoogendorn into a Sitka jail cell, handcuffed behind his back, stripping him down to his underwear, and tasering him multiple times in the thigh while holding his arms and legs together behind his back in a move that is sometimes called “hog tying.”But Schmitt says this isn’t the whole story.“What you’re seeing in the video is the culmination of a longer contact.”Schmitt says the scene in the jail cell began earlier in the evening, on the sidewalk in front of a Sitka bar, where the underage Hoogendorn had been trying to buy buy drinks. Schmitt says Hoogendorn was combative when officers initially approached him, and the struggle continued as he was taken into custody.“You can’t see him fighting back. According to the officers, he was resisting in the jail cell. He was using his arms and legs to not comply. And he was doing so with force. The officer mentions several times that he was a very strong young man.”The video was posted by Alexander Allison, a middle-school teacher in Sitka, who obtained it from a defense attorney. The treatment of Hoogendorn struck a nerve, because he had a similar encounter with Sitka police a few months later.