The Bucks and the NAACP have spoken out in support of guard Sterling Brown after the release of body-camera footage showed police using a stun gun on Brown during a January arrest that started with a parking violation.

The Milwaukee Police Department earlier Wednesday apologized to Brown and announced some of the officers involved had been disciplined. City officials’ concern over the content of the video was apparent earlier this week when Mayor Tom Barrett said he found it concerning.

“The department conducted an investigation into the incident, which revealed members acted inappropriately and those members were recently disciplined,” police chief Alfonso Morales said at a brief news conference.

“I am sorry this incident escalated to this level,” he added, and left without taking questions.

The newly released footage showed how a simple interaction over an illegally parked car quickly escalated.

It began around 2 a.m. on Jan. 26 in a Walgreens parking lot. As Brown walks out of the store, an officer standing by Brown’s car asks him for his driver’s license. When Brown gets close to his car’s passenger door, the officer touches Brown and he tells the officer not to touch him.

“Back up! Back up!” the officer yells. “For what? I ain’t did nothing,” Brown responds.

The conversation between the officer and Brown is testy as they wait for additional squad cars to show up. Brown says he has no problem with the officer’s questions and the officer responds that he touched him “because you got up in my face.”

“I got up on your face? Really?” Brown responds in disbelief.

It all took a turn for the worse when Brown, surrounded by four officers by his car, is asked to take his hands out of his pockets. Almost immediately a scuffle ensues, with the officers swarming over Brown and one yelling “Taser, Taser, Taser!”

Brown is heard groaning in pain on the ground, although he’s barely visible from the camera’s viewpoint.

He ultimately was not charged with anything, though he also issued a statement Wednesday saying the experience “was wrong and shouldn’t happen to anybody.”

“What should have been a simple parking ticket turned into an attempt at police intimidation, followed by the unlawful use of physical force, including being handcuffed and tased, and then unlawfully booked,” Brown said. “This experience with the Milwaukee Police Department has forced me to stand up and tell my story so that I can help prevent these injustices from happening in the future.”

The Bucks, in a statement of their own, said Brown has the team’s “full support as he shares his story and takes action to provide accountability.”

The president of the NAACP, Fred Royal, took his response further, saying Wednesday the body-cam footage shows, to him, the use of a stun gun was not warranted.

Royal said he finds it “disturbing that an officer would incite an argument over a parking citation” and thinks the officer should have done a better job of explaining the reason why he was questioning him.

Brown, 23, played sparingly for the Bucks this season after his draft rights were traded in July to Milwaukee from the 76ers, who made him a second-round pick of the 2017 NBA draft.

With AP