MESA, AZ (KPHO/KTVK/CNN) - A civil rights activist is calling for protest after what he believes was a case of police brutality.
He said video shows a man being beaten by police for jaywalking.
The cellphone video is a little fuzzy and the audio hard to hear, but two officers are seen engaged in a confrontation with a man on the street Monday night.
"They got out of the car ready to whip some *expletive*," said Jason Barton, the man police were taking into custody.
He insisted he was doing nothing wrong when officers accused him of jaywalking then came after him.
"They tackled me. One grabs my hand this way. The other grabs my hand this way, telling me to stop resisting arrest," Jason Barton said.
"We see in the video him being repeatedly punched in the head, kicked in the stomach and back. He was kicked so hard in back that he urinated in himself when he was beaten," community activist Rev. Jared Maupin said.
On Wednesday, Barton stood next to his mother Tina Barton and Maupin, calling for the immediate firing of the two officers and an independent investigation into the officers' actions, calling the incident a clear case of racial profiling.
"My first question to the officers is - if that was your son, daughter, mother, father, best friend, black, white, yellow, brown - would you beat them the way you beat my son?" Tina Barton said.
Maupin is organizing a peaceful protest Thursday night in front of Mesa police headquarters that will expand into the community.
"Because they choose to beat Jason for jaywalking, we are bringing in hundreds of black people to jaywalk in the city of Mesa, and we're going to start tomorrow night on Country Club and Mesa and parts of downtown," Maupin said.
The Mesa Police Department has not commented on the incident or Maupin's planned protest.
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