Screen shot of Jason Goolsby last year.

This post has been updated.

A D.C. teen is suing the District for failing to prevent false imprisonment, assault, and battery by Metropolitan Police Department officers.

A video of Jason Goolsby, a black college student, being forcibly detained by D.C. police in Eastern Market went viral online and sparked protests last year.

The incident took place after an unidentified woman called the cops because she felt “uneasy” at a Citibank ATM machine where she encountered Goolsby and a friend, Mike Brown. In the video, Goolsby is seen twisting in pain while Brown shouts to the officers that Goolsby didn’t do anything.

“It scarred him for life—physically and emotionally,” Goolsby’s attorney, Peter Grenier, told DCist.

Mayor Muriel Bowser told Goolsby that she would personally sit down with him to discuss the case, but reneged on her promise, said Grenier. LaToya Foster, a spokesperson for the mayor, confirmed that Bowser has not met with Goolsby, but couldn’t say the reason why.

After a month-long internal investigation, MPD concluded that the officers were justified in their actions. According to the report, they used options that were “reasonably necessary to bring this situation under control” and to “overcome the level of resistance” offered by Goolsby. It argues that the interaction involved the “minimum amount of force necessary” to restrain the student. The Washington City Paper’s Will Sommer first reported the suit.

According to the court filing, Goolsby is not only suing the officers involved, but the police dispatcher—all of whom are currently unidentified. The suit alleges that the dispatcher gave false information that contributed to the series of events.

On the evening of October 13, 2015, D.C. Police said that they got a call “for a suspicious person, three subjects may be trying to rob people at the ATM,” according to an MPD report. The caller told the 911 operator that she “felt like if we had taken money out we might’ve gotten robbed,” according to an MPD transcript. In Goolsby’s account, he merely opened the door to the vestibule so that a white couple with a stroller could easily pass through; they left without taking any money, which thought was odd.

The caller also said, according to the court filing, that although she felt unsafe, the teens “weren’t doing anything in the bank,” and “had not committed any crime in her presence.”

The lawsuit alleges that the dispatcher then “relayed false and/or misleading information” to MPD officers in the field, most of whom were left with the impression that they were responding to an imminent or already attempted robbery.

When officers arrived at the scene, they saw Goolsby and his friend walking down the street “not doing anything wrong, and there was still no report of an actual crime,” according to the suit. But instead of approaching them calmly, the officers “converged on the teenagers as if they were apprehending a dangerous felon.”

When a fast-moving police SUV headed straight toward him, Goolsby quickly jumped on the curb, Grenier said at a press conference following the incident. Goolsby was both scared and bewildered when a white police officer driving the car demanded he get on the ground, Grenier continued. Fearing for his life, Goolsby fled, according to the court filing.

After a short pursuit, the officers caught Goolsby, and violently apprehended him, as shown in the video, which was taped by Brown. Goolsby remained handcuffed for an extended period of time until officers let him go.

Physicians treated Goolsby for severe injuries to his face, left arm, neck, back, and thighs at Washington Hospital Center. Goolsby will also need continued psychiatric counseling, according to Grenier, who added that the entire incident “was all predicated on the fact that they were black—everyone acknowledged they were doing nothing.”

Goolsby is suing for compensatory damages for no less than $1 million, and punitive damages in the amount of $10 million.

Editor’s note: This story has been amended to reflect that the suit was first reported by Will Sommer.