All he wanted was for the cop to stop choking him.

It was a simple request, but one that Anthony Wall didn’t get.

Video footage posted to social media on Wednesday showed what happened instead — with a white police officer from Warsaw, N.C., refusing to let go of the 22-year-old black man’s neck and then moments later, slamming him onto a Waffle House parking lot.

Authorities allege that Wall was resisting arrest and acting disorderly, but he claims this wasn’t the case.

“I was pretty much trying to scream for air and trying to breathe because he was holding my throat,” Wall explained during an interview with WTVD.

“And that’s when I got aggressive with him because — you are choking me,” he said, calling the cop’s actions unjustified.

“I’m not trying to be a person that dies out here or anything like that, I just want you to stop choking me.”

Wall had just taken his 16-year-old sister to prom and thought it would be a good idea to stop by the Waffle House for some grub. He reportedly got into an argument, though, with some staff members there and authorities were called.

Things escalated upon their arrival and Wall, who was still wearing his tuxedo, eventually found himself entangled with a Warsaw police officer — nearly twice his size — outside the Waffle House.

The now-viral footage of the incident shows him being choked by the cop, who at one point, appears to go for a full-nelson submission hold before adjusting his grip and grabbing Wall’s throat.

“Get your hands off of me!” Wall says before getting slammed to the ground.

He wound up getting charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for the scuffle and suffered injuries to his back and arm.

While Wall admits that he acted inappropriately inside the Waffle House, he doesn’t believe he deserved to be treated the way he was — especially since he claims to have been cooperative.

“Your hands should have never been around my neck like that if my hands were in the air,” Wall said.

The Warsaw Police Department and the local district attorney are investigating whether the cop in the video used unnecessary force.

As of 10 p.m. Thursday, the clip had been viewed by more than 780,000 people.

“This is unnecessary, Police Brutality at its best,” wrote one Facebook user. “The young man does not reach or have a Weapon. Where is the Police Training?”

Another person said, “The cop should be jailed. Where does it say a cop 3 times the size of a young person has the authority to bang his head against glass, and choke the boy. This must stop.”