WESTLAND, MI -- Following a controversial encounter involving a father who was shocked with a Taser while holding his 2-month-old baby, Westland police have suspended the involved officer without pay for 30 days.

Westland Police Chief Jeff Jedrusik announced the suspension Wednesday, Aug. 22, following the conclusion of an internal investigation initiated after cellphone video of the chaotic Aug 17 incident was spread via social media.

The police chief said use of a Taser on Raymurez Brown, based on his unruly and uncooperative behavior, would usually have been appropriate.

"However, I feel that the use of the Taser at that time, while he was holding the child, was a questionable decision," Jedrusik said. "We are all thankful that the child was not injured."

Westland police say they were responding to multiple reports claiming Brown and his girlfriend had assaulted a woman, damaged the victim's car and that Brown was "walking down the street, yelling and threatening people."

"Where is the damaged property?," a man alleged to be Brown is heard shouting as the video footage begins.

Watch incident videos, which contain explicit language,

Various people are heard yelling as an officers says, "Get the baby out of here."

"He can be exactly where he's at," Brown responds, before taking the infant into his arms.

"This is my son, he ain't got to go nowhere, (racial epithet)," Brown says. "Know that."

An officer warns Brown multiple times that he will be arrested for disorderly conduct if he continues yelling. When Brown continues shouting, officers surround him on the porch, at least one who is holding a yellow Taser device.

"Give the baby back now," someone orders Brown as he's surrounded.

Nearly 20 seconds pass before the Taser is heard being deployed. Simultaneously to Brown being shocked, the child is stripped from his arms and immediately handed to another woman believed to be the mother.

She's heard saying, "why did you do that to my baby," and at one point in the footage holds the child in the air near an officers's face while saying, "look at my baby," before the officer instructs her: "Hold your baby like a normal human being."

Westland police say Brown was charged with disturbing the peace, hindering a police investigation, damage to personal property, neglect of a minor, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer. Police also say Brown had multiple open arrest warrants.

"The way that we're understanding it right now is that the officers were in fear that this man was actually harming the child," the police chief said during a press conference Monday evening. "... They felt the man was uncooperative, he was intoxicated, he was aggressive and the officers indicated they felt he had an extremely tight grasp on the baby.

"So at that point when the officers are making a decision ... we're going to be arresting this man, we don't want to get in a tug-o-war with this man, we don't want to direct this man to the ground while he's holding a baby, so their use was with a Taser at that point in time."

We are here with Ray Brown The Westland man who was tased and beat with baby in arms Posted by National Action Network Michigan Chapter on Wednesday, August 22, 2018

As of Wednesday, Aug. 22, the original video of the Taser incident had garnered more than 364,000 views on Facebook.

Rev. Charles Williams II, president of the Michigan chapter of the National Action Network, on Wednesday called the incident "police brutality" and announced a protest outside the Westland Police Department, 36701 Ford Road, scheduled for Friday. He called for the immediate firing of the police officer involved.

Brown appeared on crutches during the announcement alongside his attorney, Gregory Rohl, who settled a 2015 police brutality lawsuit with the Inkster Police Department for $1.4 million.

My client "has some very serious injuries that will require surgery, including a closed-head injury, and these were all caused by the barbarity that we witnessed from Westland," Rohl said.