New York ( CNN ) -- A New York police officer is under investigation after a video emerged showing him beating a 21-year-old man at a community center in Brooklyn , police said Monday . The incident occurred at 5 a.m. on October 8 , after police received a call about a dispute at the ALIYA Center in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn , police said . There , police came upon Ehud Haleavy , who refused to leave the women 's portion of the center , the statement said . `` The officers used force '' to make the arrest , and Haleavy was charged with assault , trespass , resisting arrest , harassment and unlawful possession of marijuana , according to the statement , from Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne . The incident was caught on camera and obtained by CNN from CrownHeights.info . The video shows a bare-chested , bearded man talking with two officers -- one of them a woman -- in what appears to be a game room containing a pool table and two couches . The video shows the officers approaching Haleavy , who is on one of the couches , and talking to him . Moments later , he stands and talks with the officers , gesticulating with his arms but making no apparent threat toward either officer . The video has no sound . When the officers attempt to grab him by his arms , Haleavy pulls free of their grasp . At that , the male officer , 41 , crouches into a boxing stance and hits the victim more than a dozen times , striking him in the face , the back of his head and his torso . Haleavy falls back into a couch , where he raises his arms in an apparent attempt to deflect the blows , but at no point does it appear that he is seeking to strike either officer . Later in the video , the female officer can be seen striking Haleavy repeatedly with a truncheon . More than three minutes into the video , about 10 more officers enter the room , where they cuff Haleavy 's wrists behind his back and lead him out . `` This video does not indicate New York 's finest , '' Assemblyman Dov Hikind said . `` You begin to wonder how often things like this happen . '' Haleavy `` keeps his arms down and in back of him , but he is the one who gets arrested with felonies against a police officer , '' Hikind said . `` It 's just lies , lies , lies . '' The department 's Internal Affairs Bureau has opened an investigation into the incident after reviewing the video , according to Browne . The matter was also referred to the Civilian Complaint Review Board . ALIYA -- an acronym for Alternative Learning Institute for Young Adults -- seeks to serve `` spiritual , physical , educational , emotional and vocational needs of young adults in the Crown Heights community , '' according to its website .
It shows male officer hitting suspect dozens of times . It also shows a female officer striking suspect repeatedly with a truncheon . ` ` This man does not represent New York 's finest , '' he says .