Viral video of the arrest of a wheelchair-bound man in Louisiana is causing an uproar online and raising questions about the necessity of the force police used when they took him into custody.

The cellphone footage shows the moments leading up to the arrest during the early morning hours of Dec. 1 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in which police officers are seen wheeling away a man in a wheelchair, then forcefully pulling him from the chair and cuffing him on the ground.

Tyler Laday, the man arrested, said he was with a group of friends at 1 a.m. that night when they first encountered police.

Lake Charles Police Chief Shawn Caldwell said that someone called 911 to report that the group was “being loud, disruptive, and disturbing them.”

“We gave them multiple warnings to tone it down and to

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