The video, uploaded on the Storify platform and broadcast on the ABC, CBS and CNN networks, shows a fight between the two teenagers in a shopping center in Bridgewater, New Jerseya suburb of New York City.
After a few seconds, two police officers come to separate the young people.
But while the black teenager is violently thrown to the floor, the young white man is made to sit on a sofa.
A policewoman puts her knee on the back of the young black man who is lying on the ground, and a male officer puts handcuffs on her.
“They basically throw me to the ground and then one of them puts his knee on my back and they put the handcuffs on me,” the young man, who identified himself as Kye, told ABC.
The video does not show the rest of the arrest of the young black man or what happens to the white man, who was not arrested.
Bridgewater police acknowledged on Facebook that the video “irritated members of our community” and promised to investigate what happened.
The Governor of New Jersey, Phil MurphyHe condemned the police action.
“Although the investigation is still gathering the facts of this incident, I am very upset by what appears to be a racially unequal treatment in that video,” he wrote on Twitter.
Police racism is a hot topic in the United States, where the black community faces greater risk from the authorities than whites.
Viral images of the killing of george floyda black man, in 2020 at the hands of the police, generated national protests and calls to reform the police forces.
Steffie Bartley, head of the anti-racist National Action Network, condemned what she called “implicit bias” in the Bridgewater video.
“Why was the young black man on the floor in handcuffs while the white man was sitting on the couch like he was watching?” he questioned in a statement.
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