Video circulated on social media over the weekend shows a University of Cincinnati student's arrest by Athens, Ohio police.

Some accused officers used excessive force, while the police chief defended his officers' actions.

Ajiyah Brooks, an Ohio University student who witnessed and filmed the arrest just after midnight Saturday, wrote on Twitter that "this level of violence and harm is uncalled for."

She also wrote that officers "slammed," "punched" and held the student down "when he wasn't fighting back and was unarmed."

The student was identified as 21-year-old Ty Bealer by the Athens News, which attended a news conference with Athens police regarding the incident on Monday.

Bealer pleaded not guilty to resisting arrest and obstructing official business, both misdemeanors, according to Athens Municipal Court records.

Charging documents written by police charge that Bealer "grabbed" an officer and "did fight with officers," according to the News.

Athens Police Chief Tom Pyle said Bealer was treated for a small abrasion on his right hand and a Taser barb wound, according to the News.

Officers were responding to the J-Bar, a student watering hole on North Court Street, on a report of a person identified later as Bealer causing "staff issues," the News reported.

"Officers were advised this person may have assaulted other patrons in the bar," Pyle said in a press release issued Monday after the press conference.

Ty Bealer is also the name of a chemical engineering student who is an at-large member of UC's student senate and a UC soccer club member. According to his Facebook page, Bealer attended Westerville North High School in suburban Columbus. The school's web page describes him as a 2016 graduate with multiple awards who acted as a junior mentor.

Bealer's parent said by text that the family did not wish to comment at this time.

Brooks' video, posted Sunday morning to Twitter, has been viewed more than 400,000 times. Brooks told the News that Bealer never made it into the bar.

Pyle did not return a request for comment from The Enquirer. The department did not immediately fulfill records requests made Monday morning.

Athens police has launched an internal investigation into the officers' use of force during the incident, part of the routine protocol in all use of force incidents, according to the News.

Pyle said he felt the officers' actions were "justified" and "restrained," adding he didn't "see racism in this incident." Bealer is black.

Iris Roley, a community activist in Cincinnati and an officer with the Black United Front, reviewed footage of the arrest at The Enquirer's request.

"I need to know more," she said, "but on the surface it looks horrible, it looks traumatizing. There should be more people asking the police to behave appropriately, to get off of him. ... It breaks my heart we're still there."

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Lydia Ramlo and Isabela Gibson, who are student leaders at Ohio University, issued a joint statement condemning the "discriminatory and brutal behavior."

Ramlo is the student senate president, and Gibson is the school's black affairs commissioner.

"Regardless of the circumstance, Ohio University Student Senate does not tolerate police brutality," they wrote.

The NAACP chapter at Ohio University also commented on the incident, writing on Twitter that police arrested the wrong person and that the force shown in Brooks' video "is extremely unnecessary."

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