Miami Police Assault Man; Caught on Camera

A Miami-area musician seized the moment a police officer uttered his telephone as he tried to capture his experience this week.

Emanuel David Williams, 30, is talking out about the episode and considers the officers who detained him moved a step too far.

"Last night I was assaulted by 3 #Miami police officers in front of my own home," Williams wrote in an Instagram article Sunday, adding,"These thugs knocked my phone out of my hand, threw me to the ground and punched me repeatedly in the head."

The episode unfolded Saturday at Miami's Overtown area, in which the artist says that he was strong-armed with a trio of cops after shooting out his phone. The officers, recognized solely by their names of Allen, Hernandez, and Gonzalez, were there since Williams' ex-girlfriend had called for assistance retrieving some of her things from their apartment, according to The Miami New Times, citing a police report.

Video of the incident posted online begins with Williams asking officers why they're in his face, to which one of them responds,"since we could be!" Another officer identified as "Gonzalez" grows increasingly agitated as Williams continues filming.

"Sir, should you place that phone in my head again, we are gonna really have a issue," he warns, ordering Williams to step back. "Take away the phone from my head."

Officers then order the man across the street, at one point threatening him with jail time as they follow him to the sidewalk. Williams is still recording their every move when suddenly one of the cops swats the phone from his hand, causing it to land with the camera facing upward.

"Do not place the phone in my head again, you know!" Gonzalez shouts in a second clip after swatting the device. The recording captures the three officers yanking Williams from all sides, then shoving him against fence.

"Oh my God!" Williams exclaims.

Police are heard ordering the Miami man to the ground and shouting at him to "stop resisting." Williams insists he's being compliant and can be heard repeatedly telling officers he can't breathe.

He was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence -- both misdemeanors.

Williams told the New Times he was grateful his phone still managed to capture more of the incident.

"I was shocked my telephone even picked up the part once they knocked it from my hands," he said. "I just got my phone back once I got out of jail. I didn't believe my telephone captured all that"

In their report, police painted Williams as the aggressor, saying he arrived to the scene"acting belligerently and causing a disturbance." They don't say Williams ever acted aggressively toward them. Rather, officer Gonzalez said he arrested the musician for invading his space with his cellphone.

"The suspect then continued to put his phone within very close proximity of my head, once more breaching the space inside my reactionary gap, at which stage I told the defendant he was under arrest, at which point I seized the suspect by the arm and tried to guided him into the floor to affect the arrest," the officer wrote.

Gonzalez further accused Williams of resisting arrest and said he only got into the police car"after a second battle."

Miami Police officials addressed the incident in a statement this week, saying they've launched a formal investigation.

"The City of Miami Police Department is mindful of a mobile phone video surfacing on societal websites revealing that our uniformed officers in an arrest with a defendant who had been filming," department spokeswoman Kellia Fallat said. "Our Internal Affairs Section can be conscious and exploring the conditions that led up into the movie "