[Video] Seattle cop punches teen girl in the face, video goes viral

Seattle police have been investigating an incident that they say is an “assault on an officer” after the clip below of an unnamed cop punching a 17-year-old girl in the face became popular on YouTube.

Police say no one was injured during the fracas, and that the incident escalated when the girl attempted to flee:

The girl then “began to tense up her arm, and pull away from the officer while yelling at him,” investigators said. The officer told the girl to place her hands on his patrol car, but she refused. When the officer tried to grab hold of her, “she pulled away and twisted, breaking free of the officer’s grip several times,” the blotter report said.

When the officer tried to handcuff the girl, another girl, this one 17 years old, intervened and placed her hands on the officer’s arm, “causing the officer to believe she was attempting to physically affect the first subject’s escape,” police said.

The officer pushed back the second girl, but the girl came back at him. The officer then punched her, police said.

Both teens in the video were cited for jaywalking, and police say there will be a “thorough investigation into this incident.”