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Baltimore County police are investigating the conduct of two officers after a student videotaped them making an arrest in Towson last weekend.Police determined the incident happened at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday when on-duty officers witnessed a disturbance among several members of a large crowd in the 400 block of York Road.Watch: Raw video of fight | Barry Simms' report | Videographer tells his sideOfficers at the scene included Baltimore County Police, Baltimore County Auxiliary Police and Maryland State Police. It is unclear whether other agencies also were involved.Police said at least two people, a man and woman, were arrested and charged with resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, second-degree assault and drug charges. Their identities haven't been released.Officials said the video that's about 2 and a half minutes in length shows an officer confronting the man who is filming the arrests.Sergio Gutierrez, 21, a business technology administration senior at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, captured the video because he thought police were too aggressively going after college students leaving the bars. He said he believes that video made him a target."(I was) standing there quietly filming," Gutierrez said. "I was basically holding the camera up, kind of like waving a flag to them, like, 'Yes, you're being recorded right now. You better, you know, be civil.' Which, they weren't. I think they just had adrenaline pumping through them to an extreme, and they just kind of lost it."He said he knew he wasn't breaking the law when he was filming Baltimore County police handling a large crowd."In my mind, I knew that I was doing nothing wrong and I knew that if they tried to arrest me that, you know, I have evidence showing that I did nothing wrong," Gutierrez said. "They didn't arrest me, so that's good."The actions of at least one officer are under investigation after the video was posted on a website. In the video, Gutierrez asks if he committed any crime or did anything wrong.Police, ACLU investigateThe Baltimore County police and the American Civil Liberties Union are aware of the video. Police said they would like to speak to Gutierrez to get more information about what happened. "I think the video pretty clearly indicates not only the legal police behavior in violation of a citizen's rights to record, but also just strikingly unprofessional and improper police behavior," said ACLU spokesman David Rocah. "I think this is really a textbook example of police doing the wrong thing.""What we have here is an altercation between a man who was filming here and a head officer. We have an investigation that is in process and still in the early stages to look at what happened," Baltimore County police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said.Police agencies have gotten into trouble and some have faced lawsuits over the years on the issues of citizens videotaping officers. The Department of Justice has guidelines on the issue. Baltimore County police and other departments have policies and train officers on the rights of citizens to record public police activity.Gutierrez said he has no regrets about his conduct that night, but police are trying to figure out if they can say the same about their officers. "If we conclude that there was inappropriate action on the part of anyone associated with Baltimore County police, we will not hesitate to address that," Armacost said.Gutierrez said a friend of his was arrested for disturbing the peace. He thinks that arrest was made because Gutierrez was filming the police action.Recognizing that a video often represents only a small part of an incident, investigators want to know more about what happened before and after the events depicted on the video, officials said.Police said they recognize and respect the right of citizens to film officers on duty in a public place unless the person filming has violated some other law or statute.11 News reporters Barry Simms and Kerry Cavanaugh contributed to this report.