Two Hallandale Beach police officers were caught on video repeatedly striking a man with batons as he writhed in pain and they shouted "get on the ground." Someone can be heard off camera yelling, "He didn't do anything. Stop f---ing hitting him." The video surfaced Thursday afternoon on Twitter. The person who posted the video, using the Twitter handle 1, said the man is "mentally challenged." "Police brutality in broad daylight on Hallandale Beach Blvd," the Twitter user wrote. "Police heavily beat this man up busted his head open led him to bleed heavily. The man is known around the area to be a mentally challenged individual." Hallandale Beach's top officials called a press conference Thursday evening to address the burgeoning crisis. "We do have a situation today where there's video of two of our officers in an altercation with someone," City Manager Roger Carlton told reporters. "I will tell you after viewing that video it is of serious concern to the police department, to me as city manager and certainly to our elected officials." Carlton said the two officers - Jaime Cerna, an 11-year veteran, and Richard Allen, a 35-year veteran who retired and now works on an hourly basis - have been placed on administrative leave and an internal affairs investigation has begun. Carlton said they will be collecting surveillance video and interviewing witnesses. "An internal affairs investigation has already begun and it will be done by the books," he said. Unlike many South Florida police departments, Hallandale Beach does not have body-cam cameras for all of its officers. The city has contended with several issues in getting them, including some police officer resistance. Carlton says they're in the process of acquiring the cameras.
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