In an effort to silence claims of police brutality made in a viral Facebook post, Rainbow City police have released body camera video of a traffic stop that occurred Thursday night.

The post, which has been shared 28,600 times as of early Friday evening, claims officers beat, use a stun gun and pushed a man off a bridge around 10 p.m. The post says the man was taken to a Gadsden hospital and airlifted to UAB Hospital, but next of kin was not notified. Photos of the man in a hospital bed with a bloody mouth were also posted.

"Rainbow city beat him half to death and pushed him off a bridge," the post said. "The people who are supposed to serve and protect. He's trying to talk but his whole front row of teeth are knocked out, he had to have his tongue sewed back together and his femur bone is broken he has to have surgery on it."

The post and photos were taken down from Facebook on Saturday, but a screenshot of it shows the extent of his injuries.

Warning: photos are graphic.

A screenshot of the original post on Facebook.

Chief Jonathon Horton said he found out about the Facebook post Friday morning. He released a 30-minute video of the incident Friday night, which shows the man jumping off the bridge during the traffic stop.

The video does not show what happened before the man ran from officers and jumped off the bridge.

Horton said an officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle at Black Creek Parkway for not having a tail light at 8:40 p.m. As the officer was giving the female driver a warning for the tail light, Horton said the officer noticed the male passenger was acting nervous. The officer asked for the passenger's identification, but the passenger told police he did not have an Alabama driver's license, Horton said, though he did give law enforcement a name and a date of birth, Horton said.

When the officer tried to look up the passenger's information, nothing popped up, Horton said. Horton said the passenger then produced an Alabama license, but the passenger did not look like the person in the photo. The passenger told the officer he lost a lot of weight while he was in jail, Horton said.

The female driver was then interviewed separately from the male. The female gave the officer the male's real name, Horton said. When the passenger's real name was searched in the system, Horton said, police found a probation revocation for two felony warrants for dangerous drugs and misdemeanor traffic warrants, according to Horton.

The video shows the officer going back to the car to talk to the man. Horton said the passenger seemed calm until he unexpectedly ran from the car, crossing two lanes of oncoming traffic toward the median and jumped over the barrier, which is a 19-foot drop.

The video shows the officer shouting at the man, "Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands.He's crawling. He's crawling. He's right there in the bushes."

The video is from the perspective of the officer who guided other officers with his flashlight from the bridge and not from the officers who were searching for the man below the bridge. Horton said the man took off his pants while attempting to jump into the river. Another officer went below the bridge to find the man. Horton said the man continued to run from police and did not show his hands. An officer used a stun gun on the man, at which point he stopped running.

The officer on the bridge then descends to the scene below. At 3:12 of the video, the man starts screaming about pain in his leg. Shortly after, you can hear the officer informing dispatchers that a Taser has been deployed. He also asked dispatchers to send a medic, according to the video.

Horton said it looks like the injuries shown in the photos online were results from the 19-foot fall.

"He jumped off the bridge," Horton said. "There wasn't any physical contact (between him and the officer) other than him being Tased."

The video shows officers giving aide to the man before he was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Horton said charges are pending against the individual.