GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Some men and women are claiming police brutality led to a Gainesville police officer being kicked, punched and beaten earlier this month after he used a Taser on someone at a block party that got out of hand.

Officers said they arrested five people that night. Now, several people are protesting those arrests.

Many of them said they were at the scene the night the officer was attacked, saying it was the result of police brutality.

They claim what is not seen the YouTube video are officers attacking people for no apparent reason.

One man said he was Tased multiple times by multiple officers on the chest and on the back. He said he's lucky to be alive.

"It just looks like, oh, a bunch of people randomly attacking a police officer," the man said, "but the crowd was reacting to the violence the officer initiated."

James Schmidt, with the Alachua Committee Against Brutality, said photographs are proof of the Taser wounds one party-goer got when he tried to intervene for a friend.

The group is fighting to get all the charges dropped against everyone who was arrested.

But a spokesman for the police department said there was no brutality, and if there was a victim in the case it was the officer in the video.

Investigators said the officer was attacked because the crowd was unhappy about the actions officers were trying to take.

"Law enforcement is used to being criticized, but rarely do we have video backup like this showing our officers acting in a proper way," Gainesville Police Department spokesman Keith Kameg said. "He held his ground very well."

Members of the group, however, said they'll keep fighting until their names are cleared.

"We don't believe that anyone that's been arrested will be found guilty of the charges that have been levied against them," Schmidt said.