Michael H. Joseph

Police claim the scuffle was started when the man being subdued "attempted to interfere" with the arrest of a female passenger who had an outstanding warrant.

Police also claim that another passenger in the car, Gary Patterson, tried to "grab an officer's firearm".

"The video as you can tell I was behind the camera, I was nowhere near in the picture or nowhere near any of the officers," Patterson said.

Police say Patterson fled the scene after trying to take the officer's gun.

But a passenger in the car had videotaped the entire incident.

She did not want to be identified.

She says the video clearly shows her friend did not flee.

"I saw him walk away and the cops did nothing they let him walk away, they allowed him to walk away, they told him he could go," the passenger said.

"If I had attempted to take the officer's gun he would have arrested me right there on the spot. I wouldn't have been able to walk home," Patterson said.

It's only after he went to the Greenburgh Police Station an hour later to help get his friend released that he was arrested and charged with attempted robbery for trying to grab a cop's gun.

"Why would I walk or come back to the precinct after I attempted to take an officer's weapon? That wouldn't be too bright of me," Patterson