Baltimore city police continued to vigorously defend the force used by a police officer who was caught on video tape striking and throwing a 53-year-old bar manager on a slab of concrete last month after handcuffing him during an arrest.

A video obtained by The Examiner shows an officer throwing a punch with an elbow at Glenn Curry and then throwing him onto the sidewalk Aug. 26 in the 1500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.