DETROIT — In a press conference at his attorney’s office on Wednesday, 57-year-old Floyd Dent, an auto worker with no criminal record, described the January 28 incident in which he said Inkster police dragged him from his car during a traffic stop. The police also beat him and tasered him, according to Dent’s account, which was recorded on the patrol car’s video camera.

According to the video, Dent did not appear to be resisting arrest.

Dent was put in a choke hold and repeatedly hit on the head by officer William Melendez, according to reports. Other officers kicked and tasered him. All the officers involved are White.

An Inkster district court judge threw out charges of assault and resisting arrest after seeing the video, but Dent still faces a hearing next month on charges of cocaine possession. He maintains the officers planted the drugs. At the press conference, Dent’s attorney, Gregory Rohl, said portions of the tape show police planting the drugs.