PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) – A Facebook video appears to show a Portsmouth police officer with his hand on or around a medic’s neck and throat at the scene of a call.









The video has been shared hundreds of times and sparked outrage online, but both police and witnesses say the video doesn’t tell the whole story.



They say they watched a police officer use a Taser on the man, and a medic tried to intervene on the man’s behalf.



“The EMT said, ‘You can’t be tasing this guy, he’s bleeding, got head problems,’ ” Josh Journey said. “Then after that he grabbed the EMT, took him across the street, and I saw him have his hand on his throat all the way across the road and had him up against that cruiser.”