CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Teen alleges police brutality against Little Falls police officer

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (WABC) -- Police in New Jersey are investigating allegations that one of their own officers roughed up and abused a teenager, and the whole thing was caught on camera.

It happened Saturday night. The cop was at the teen's house and the young man ended up handcuffed in the snow in a t-shirt and no shoes.

"I couldn't believe what was going on you know. I thought to myself, 'Is this really happening?'" said Michael, 16 years old.

Video shows 16-year-old Michael face down in the snow with a Little Falls police officer holding him down and handcuffing him.

Michael doesn't want us to use his last name, but he and his mom agreed to do an on-camera interview because they want the officer involved held accountable.

Much of it was caught on the family's security cameras.

"I got swung around. Put down. I got a knee to my head. It was snowing outside, I had no jacket no shoes," Michael said.

Police came knocking on Michael's door, looking for his acquaintance Saturday evening, for what we don't know.

The video shows one officer walk around the side of his family's home, and another knocked on the door. Michael says the officer dragged him out of his house after saying he lied about not knowing where his acquaintance was.

"He had bruises on his arms and he was afraid of what happened. This officer was much bigger than him and he did something that he shouldn't have been doing especially to a minor," said Fina Elsaadany, Michael's mother.

Michael was charged with resisting arrest.

He and his parents reported the incident to the prosecutor's office because they feel the officers should be fired or at least suspended.

"I thought the police force was supposed to save people and protect the community, but in this case we were violated," Elsaadany said.

"Hopefully things turn out the right way, all I'm looking for is justice," Chmielewski said. "He shouldn't be a police officer anymore, that's what I think."

The officers did not search inside the house.

The police department could not comment pending the Prosecutor's Office investigation.