A disabled black man has filed a complaint against two Laval police officers for violently arresting him with no cause, then erasing the video he made of the arrest.

Pradel Content, 39, says that police from Laval, Quebec erased the video he took with his cellphone which shows him being violently handcuffed while trying to explain that he was disabled.

According to the Montreal Gazette, “A disabled, black, English-speaking man has laid complaints against two Laval police officers for violently arresting him without cause and erasing a video of the incident from his cell phone.”

Constable Michael Boutin admitted to deleting the video of the arrest from Pradel’s phone in the official police report.

“I want my life back,” the victim said during a news conference Saturday, July 8. “Let me live.”

The Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR) “filed complaints on Content’s behalf with Quebec’s Police Ethics Commission and Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission in connection with the incident, alleging the officers used excessive force to arrest him and erased footage of the incident, which is illegal.”

The police report also said that the Pradel had to “be handcuffed and placed in the police car. He cries constantly that he is handicapped.”