City employee investigated for video

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The video shows a security officer roughing up a man because the man was videotaping him. A new website aimed at policing cops claims the security officer has a history of abuse. So why does he still have his job?

The city says the security officer is now under investigation, all for what's on the video.

“A citizen, you have no right to harass me,” you can hear the man on the video saying.

The video was taken last august at the Alvarado Transportation Center downtown by a man who didn't want to go on camera.

He says he saw a homeless man being arrested at the bus station and started recording everything on his phone.

“Why are you being detained,” you can hear the man ask the handcuffed homeless man. “And he goes, ‘I don't know ask him.”
    
You can hear the man on the video question the security guard, Andy Fitzgerald's authority.

“He's not a police officer just a city employed security guard,” says the man on the video.

Fitzgerald gets upset and things escalate quickly. He put the man on the ground and the man claims he was then pepper-sprayed.

“Before I could even answer he proceeded to attack me and his partner came right behind and put the mace right in my eyes. I thought he was going to inject that stuff into my eyeballs,” said the man.

The video was posted on a new website aimed at policing the police. The website,  www.policecomplaints.info , says they dug up even more on Fitzgerald.

The website claims Fitzgerald has been in trouble for arresting people illegally, lying on his time card, even stealing snacks from a local Laundromat. The city could not confirm these past allegations but did say Fitzgerald is not working with the public now while the city investigates what's on this video.

Fitzgerald, who has been with the city since 2009, could be fired. He makes just shy of 13 bucks an hour.

The man who claims Fitzgerald attacked him, says he plans to sue the city.