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Some kind of incident brought a big response to the Château Laurier. Seems calm now.#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/YT8E5xfI95 — Rick Anderson (@RickAnderson) September 22, 2016

Footage of the video shows two cops pulling a man out of a red car and pinning him down on his stomach.

The man is heard screaming, “This is how I’m treated in Canada, this is how I’m treated in Canada, this is how I’m treated in Canada. A violation of Canadian chart of rights and freedom.”

A total of four officers are needed to arrest the man while two others search the car parked in front of the Château.

A female cop emerges from the car empty-handed, followed by a second cop holding a deployed Taser.

“I lost my hat… (inaudible) …, I lost my hat,” the man is heard yelling.

The RCMP spokesperson told the Citizen the man is known to police.

“There is not much else we can say at this time since the investigation is ongoing,” Mineault said.

A spokesperson for the Château Laurier who was called back to work and arrived on the scene after the incident was already underway said the man arrested was not a guest at the hotel.

“The incident had nothing to do with the hotel,” public relations director Deneen Perrin said in a phone interview Thursday.

“We had our own security on sight … the safety and security of our guests was maintained.”

Perrin said the vehicle was towed away and police helped clean up broken glass from the car at the hotel’s entrance.

“By midnight everybody was gone,” she said.

— With files from Gary Dimmock