A Bayonne city official said Friday there is no investigation into an alleged excessive police force incident that is the subject of a federal lawsuit that was filed last month, contradicting an online news report that said otherwise.

Public Safety Director Jason O’Donnell disputed Friday an online Hudson Reporter story that claimed he said there is an “internal investigation” into an August 2010 involving Jason Rios, 35, of 33rd Street in Bayonne.

“No, not true,” O’Donnell said about the article.

O’Donnell would say no more about the case. “It’s a pending litigation and I can’t comment,” O’Donnell said. “If I did I’d be breaking the law.”

Rios filed a federal lawsuit last month saying that police came to his house on Aug. 29, 2010, after he called 911 to report that his car was on fire.

A video obtained by The Jersey Journal of some of what transpired shows a verbal exchange between Rios and police officers after the flames had been extinguished.

It shows Rios walking away from the cops when an officer follows him and appears to spray him in the back of the head with what the lawsuit says was pepper spray.

The video then shows the 35-year-old turning and pointing at the officer, and the officer grabbing Rios’ wrist and spraying him in the face.

Two other officers help bring Rios to the ground and handcuff him with no visible sign of resistance.

The video shows Rios being frisked at the open door of a police car when he turns, says something to the officers, and is yanked by the arm and placed on the pavement, out of view of the camera.

In the lawsuit, Rios’ lawyer, Joel Silberman of Jersey City, alleges Rios’ face struck the pavement and the officers “savagely assaulted him until he lost consciousness.”

The Rios case was featured in a front-page story in The Jersey Journal on Thursday.

The federal lawsuit names the city of Bayonne, the Police Department, former Chief Robert Kubert, Lt. Robert Deczynski, Sgt. Franco Amato, and officers James Mahoney, Joseph Saroshinsky and Roman Popowski, as defendants.

Popowski was named in at least three separate complaints between 2006 and 2009, lawyers representing plaintiffs in a previous incident said. Information on previous complaints was not available through the Bayonne Law Department.

The lawsuit asks for punitive damages and lawyers’ fees, but does not specify an amount.

Neither the officers nor the Bayonne PBA could be reached for comment.

Journal staff writer Michaelangelo Conte contributed to this story.