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The incident on video occurred near Tillbury Park on Sherbourne Road.

The caption on the video alleges police were there to break up a fight at Notre Dame and began focusing on the person seen with the bicycle a short distance away.

Ottawa police were called “to break up two white girls fighting a black girl at Notre Dame high school, then move attention over to the black kid who supposedly just moved a bicycle out of the way but was told he stole it! Enough is enough (Ottawa police) need to stop putting their hands on black kids and black men in Ottawa,” the caption reads.

Police said Tuesday they were called to the area to deal with fighting involving more than 40 teens. The officer involved sustained minor injuries.

“Charges have been laid and the matter is now before the courts,” police said in a statement. “The investigation continues. As such, the Ottawa police will not comment further at this time.”

Police have charged one teen with theft and assaulting police. That teen was released on a promise to appear in court at a later date.

The officer was alone at the time of the incident and “attempted to engage his emergency button and it appeared to not work,” Chief Charles Bordeleau wrote in an email to all officers Tuesday afternoon.

“Tests are currently being done on his issued radio and from the location to understand why no transmission was received by the (communications) centre.”

Bordeleau has now given frontline staff sergeants and inspectors “the discretion to deploy doubled up units in vehicles to remind officers to arrive with back–up for priority calls.”