Video shows deputy repeatedly punching man in Detroit

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Civil rights groups in Oregon are calling for an investigation after a video showed a Marion County sheriff’s deputy punching a prone man more than a dozen times.

The video shows four Marion County sheriff’s officers converging on a man standing on a street in the town of Detroit, then pulling him to the ground. As one officer appears to struggle to force one of the man’s arms behind his back, another punches him in the head.

Through the punches, the man, identified as 28-year-old Kevin Straw, shouts “I am not resisting.” The video was shot by Portland TV station KGW.

The sheriff’s office said the arrest happened Monday after Straw repeatedly tried to interfere with the search for two missing (and later found) father-and-son fishermen in the Detroit area. The sheriff’s office said it’s reviewing the officers’ use of force.