Shocking video shows white police ‘punching black man after taxi carrying him stopped’

An investigation is under way in Georgia after video emerged that appeared to show white officers pummelling a black man and forcing his face into the road, after the taxi he was traveling in was apparently stopped and he was asked to show his ID.

Officials in Clayton County, south of Atlanta, said an officer had been placed on administrative leave and that the internal investigation team had launched a probe.

They did so after various clips posted on social media showed two officers from the Clayton County Sheriff’s Department punching the unidentified black man, and forcing his face down into the highway.