Madrid Cop Under Fire For Beating Unruly African Migrant During Arrest

Spain's Interior Ministry announced on Monday that it will investigate a violent police attack on reportedly unarmed Black men in Madrid.

The police violence in the multicultural neighborhood of Lavapies was caught on film and denounced by left-wing politicians and anti-racist groups in Spain.

The video begins with the image of a man completely immobilized by one police officer on the street. A second officer is then shown whacking the immobilized man with a baton.

From there, a second Black man standing nearby seems to ask the police officer to calm down and stop hitting the man who is already pinned to the ground.

That officer then attacks the second Black man, forcefully pushing him, punching him in the throat and trying to put him in a chokehold. That man manages to escape the officer's grasp and runs off the camera, chased by the police.

After, the video shows the first Black man continue to be pinned to the ground by the police officer, who at times seems to be putting him in a chokehold.

The entire video lasts just 70 seconds. In the end, two migrant men were arrested.

But the video soon went viral on social media and was denounced as inappropriate police behavior.