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An angry crowd tried to “take the law into their own hands” and stop a Toronto Police officer from arresting a man outside a liquor store, according to a video posted to Facebook Tuesday morning.

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The group that gathered outside the LCBO store at Sheridan Mall last Friday afternoon can be heard calling the white police officer “racist” and urging him to let the young black man go.

The 16-minute video does not show the exchange that led to the arrest. What it does show is an agitated crowd of people gathered around the officer, who has the suspect pinned to the ground.

During the exchange, one bystander in particular — a man in a Blue Jays jacket — gets within inches of the police officer. He grabs the suspect at times and tries to pull the officer off of him.

The officer can be heard telling the man in the Jays jacket to “get the f— out of here … I’m making an arrest” at the beginning of the video. He appears to be speaking into his radio to call for back up as he orders the suspect to put his hands behind his back.

“He’s somebody’s kid,” someone off camera says. “This is f—-d up,” another witness says.

Later the man in the Jays jacket yells, “let him go!” But the officer yells back, “no!”