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This is the moment a police officer took down a naked man by shooting in the privates with a Taser.

Footage from an onlooker captured the altercation between the policeman and the nude suspect.

Shot on a mobile phone, the short film shows a naked man walking towards a police car in America.

The man suddenly appears to make a lunge for a police officer, who leaps back.

A crack is then heard and the suspect falls to the ground with a screech.

Those filming the incident can be heard gasping in shock, before the officer marks towards the prone man and screams at him to: “Put your hands out to your side now.”

The officer then demands the man roll over onto his stomach, before a second police car is heard in the distance.

One onlooker asks the woman filming the scene: “Did you get the whole thing?”.

She replies that it is still recording, before stating: “I think he tased him in the d***.”