WATCH: Prosecutor Probes Video Showing Alleged Police Brutality At Brookdale

A video showing Brookdale Community College police officers wrestling with a nursing student has raised a question: Was it police brutality?

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office has begun an investigation now that the video (below) has emerged showing the man being restrained and pepper-sprayed during his arrest Friday, officials said.

The student who was being apprehended was Jeffrey Michel of Colts Neck, and his friends have taken to social media, saying it was police brutality. The YouTube video shows the Lincroft-based school’s officers arresting the Colts Neck resident, according to The Asbury Park Press. Michel repeatedly pleads to know why he’s being arrested.

Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Charles Webster confirmed that his office is “investigating the totality of the incident,” according to nj.com.

The video comes as a report was published showing that, in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, African-Americans were arrested at some of the highest rates in the United States, according to a USA Today review of FBI records.

In 2011-2012, blacks accounted for up to 44 percent of arrests in Jersey Shore towns where the black population was less than 15 percent of total residents, according to the FBI data compiled by USA Today.