A surveillance video uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday shows a man punched in the face by a security guard outside the Boneyard Bar on Station Street in downtown Chattanooga, then left on the ground as the guards closed the doors.
The man was identified in an incident report from the Chattanooga Police Department as Caleb Lewis Young. He was trying to enter the bar through the rear entrance when the security guards blocked him from doing so.
Soon after, Young was shown being struck in the face by one of the guards and falling to the ground unconscious.
The guard “stated that Mr. Young balled his fist, swung and struck another security guard,” the report said. The guard “stated he then struck Mr. Young directly in the face.”
In the first few seconds of the nearly four-minute video, Young struggled with security guards to gain entrance to the bar. The guards then pushed him, causing Young to fall on his back. As Young tried to get up, he stumbled and fell on the restaurant’s sign before the guards stopped him from entering the bar. Young then took a swing at one of the security guards before he was punched in the face by a guard.